An Organic Consumers Association newsletter tracks the run-up to Vermont's July 1 GMO labeling deadline: no court ruling, no federal preemption bill, companies labeling or dropping GMO ingredients, and a Roberts-Stabenow push still alive. It also questions "organic" infant formula.
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Big Ag attacks organics - from EWG
EWG says more than 30,000 people signed its petition this month urging Congress to invest more in organic agriculture, which it notes covers less than one percent of American farmland. The group is answering the Alliance for Food and Farming's charge that it is 'anti-fruits and veggies.'
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Tell Congress: Don’t Give My Money to Monsanto!
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to oppose $3 million in the House agriculture spending bill for promoting acceptance of agricultural biotechnology. Rep. Nita Lowey's amendment to strike the provision failed 29 to 20.
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Our Latest Ad in The Hill Asks Congress: - ResponsibleTechnology.org
The ad asks whether the EPA hid Monsanto's Roundup studies, citing scientist Anthony Samsel's account of animals fed even small amounts of glyphosate developing tumors, and asks readers to write their senators about the health risks of GMOs and glyphosate.
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DARK Act Comeback Inevitable? - newsletter 042416 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association reports the American Grassfed Association is building an industry-wide grass-fed dairy standard covering animal health, transparency and land management, and warns the DARK Act, voted down in the Senate in March, may return.
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Tiny Traces, Deadly Secrets - Newsletter 041516 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues that endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food, packaging and body care products are not as well tested as industry claims, and cites new research suggesting co-formulants in glyphosate herbicides may disrupt hormones.
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Koch Industries, Monsanto and the $175-Billion Fertilizer Industry
An OCA essay argues the $175-billion chemical fertilizer industry escapes the scrutiny given GMOs and pesticides, noting Koch Industries ranked as the world's third-largest nitrogen fertilizer maker in 2010 and that two-thirds of US drinking water carries high nitrate or nitrite levels.
Law & Regulations
National Organic Program: Proposed Rule for Animal Welfare Standards
The Cornucopia Institute's Mark Kastel responds to USDA's long-delayed draft organic animal welfare rule, noting it arrives five years after the standards board's 2011 recommendation and could phase in over another three to five, and questioning the board process behind it.
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Meet the Indiana Jones of Landscape Restoration - newsletter 033116 from Organic Consumers Organization
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter leading with an interview in which ecosystem restoration filmmaker John D. Liu describes large-scale land recovery in China and Rwanda, alongside an action alert against a compromise Senate GMO labeling bill.
Legal Actions
Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
A coalition of fishing, consumer and environmental groups, represented by the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice, sued the FDA over its approval of AquaBounty's fast-growing Atlantic salmon, saying the agency ignored risks to wild salmon and required no labeling.
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Decoding labels - newsletter 033016 from EWG
EWG asks for donations after helping block the DARK Act in the Senate, offering its Guide to Decoding Labels and noting that disclosing genetically engineered ingredients is still up to food processors and that terms like “grass-fed” and “natural” may not mean what shoppers assume.
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Good Intentions? Or Subversive Strategy? Newsletter 032416 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association questions whether General Mills and other large food companies now promising GMO labels have really split with the Grocery Manufacturers Association, or are trying to lull consumers while Congress preempts Vermont's labeling law.
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Come April Fool's Day, Will the Joke Be on Us?
The Organic Consumers Association warns the DARK Act is not dead: Sen. Pat Roberts lacked the votes on March 16, but Mitch McConnell switched his vote so an amended bill could return. Readers are asked to call senators against any compromise preempting Vermont's law.
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Don't Ask, Won't Tell - newsletter 032016 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association celebrates the Senate's failure to pass Sen. Pat Roberts's bill preempting Vermont's GMO labeling law, and warns he will return after the Easter recess seeking a compromise to keep the Vermont law from taking effect July 1.
Law & Regulations
USDA Consolidates and Streamlines Regulations for processed meats
FSIS proposed a rule that would drop redundant trichinae control requirements for pork and consolidate the regulations for thermally processed, commercially sterile meat and poultry. Plants would still have to control trichinae through their HACCP plans. The agency is taking comment.
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Goodbye DARK Act, Hello big market breakthrough
Center for Food Safety reports the Senate defeated the DARK Act and General Mills then said it will label genetically engineered ingredients nationwide to comply with Vermont's July law, following Campbell's in January. Both say prices will not rise because of the change.
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Until Victory, Always' - newsletter 031916 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association celebrates the Senate's failure to pass a bill preempting Vermont's GMO labeling law, but warns that Sen. Pat Roberts will be back after the Easter recess to broker a compromise before the law takes effect July 1.
Advisories
Federal Seafood Guidelines May Put Moms and Babies at Risk
EWG tested hair samples from more than 250 women of childbearing age who eat at least as much seafood as federal guidelines recommend. Nearly 60 percent carried more mercury than is healthy during pregnancy or nursing, and nearly 30 percent exceeded EPA's safe level.
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