An Organic Consumers Association roundup covers a US Right to Know review saying the Gates-funded Cornell Alliance for Science promotes GMOs with dishonest messaging, and a letter from Bernie Sanders and five other senators questioning the GMA's QR code labeling plan.
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He said. She says? Newsletter 011816 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter reports Campbell Soup told the group it will not raise prices or shrink margins after labeling products containing GMOs, and flags a closed-door USDA meeting on labeling with Monsanto and industry representatives.
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What to expect from Monsanto in January
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising appeal argues that USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's invitation-only January meeting on GMO labeling will produce a voluntary QR code scheme rather than the mandatory labeling laws states like Vermont have passed.
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Something is happening
An Organic Consumers Association year-end appeal arguing that healthy soil can grow more nutrient-dense food, store rainfall and draw carbon out of the atmosphere, and asking readers to help raise $160,000 by December 31 to meet a matching challenge.
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Many Question If These Charities Help World Hunger
A critique of Heifer International and other live-animal charities, arguing donated livestock burden poor families with feed, shelter, security and veterinary costs rather than helping, and citing flocks that died of disease and aquaculture projects that failed twice in Chicago.
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McDonald’s and Nestle Renounce Cruel Eggs--But More Needs to Be Done
The writer welcomes the cage-free pledges but calls them incomplete, because hatcheries still grind up unwanted male chicks alive, 150,000 a day at one Iowa facility. She also cites 50 million US laying hens asphyxiated this year over bird flu and barn fires that kill thousands more.
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BREAKING NEWS: CONGRESS COULD MOVE TO BAN GMO LABELING TODAY!
An Environmental Working Group fundraising appeal asking supporters to give $10 or more toward a $25,000 same-day goal to fight attempts to attach the DARK Act, which would block mandatory GMO labeling, to an end-of-year spending bill.
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Victory! Agent Orange Crops Halted
EPA announced it is revoking the registration of Dow's Enlist Duo, a glyphosate and 2,4-D mix made for genetically engineered crops, after a lawsuit by Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice. EPA said the combination is likely more harmful than it first believed.
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Everything You Need to Know About Food Stamp Fraud
The Labor Department puts fraud or abuse at 2% of food stamp payments, and in 2010 the LA Times reported 25% of new San Diego County welfare applications contained some fraud. The piece runs through cases, including Birmingham store owners buying EBT cards at 50 cents on the dollar.
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FDA approves GE salmon
The Center for Food Safety tells supporters it will sue over the FDA's approval of AquaBounty's genetically engineered salmon, the first GE animal cleared for human consumption, and asks for donations. The agency received two million comments opposing the move.
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Docs Dump Monsanto - newsletter `001`5 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter reporting that the American Academy of Pediatrics will end its sponsor partnership with Monsanto after blogger Leah Segedie contacted it, and promoting October 16-17 events in Washington against the DARK Act.
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The case that could decide GE labeling
A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal ahead of October 8 appellate hearings on Vermont's genetically engineered food labeling law, which the group says will set the first legal precedent for state GE labeling laws.
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DARK Act to get Senate hearing - letter from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association says the Senate Agriculture Committee will likely take up H.R. 1599, which it calls the DARK Act, the week of October 5, with a Grocery Manufacturers Association lobbying day on October 7, and asks for donations to fight the bill.
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Hallelujah! - newsletter 092415 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter argues Monsanto answers each new glyphosate study by denying the findings and attacking the scientists, and asks readers for third-quarter donations, noting no senator has yet introduced a Senate version of the House's H.R. 1599.
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I'm keeping the enemy close - from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising letter. Its author subscribes to the Monsanto-funded 'Safe and Affordable Food Coalition' newsletter and argues that the industry's talk of a uniform national labeling law hides what H.R. 1599 would do: preempt the FDA from requiring GMO labels.
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Resending: Video transcript available, "The Future of GMO Activism and the DARK Act"
The Institute for Responsible Technology offers a transcript of Jeffrey Smith's video on the future of non-GMO activism after the House passed H.R. 1599 on July 23, and asks readers to donate to its consumer education programs.
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ONE MINUTE VIDEO: Proves Vilsack is "Lapdog" for Agribusiness/Biotechnology (commentary and video)
A Cornucopia Institute commentary argues the USDA organic seal is losing meaning: Consumer Reports downgraded its rating from highly meaningful to meaningful, and the National Organic Program dismissed without investigation Cornucopia's 2014 complaints against 14 large poultry and dairy CAFOs.
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We shouldn't have to be doing this - eletter from Organic Consumers Association
A fundraising e-letter from the Organic Consumers Association, asking readers to help raise $200,000 by September 30 for the GMO labeling fight after 275 House members voted for a bill it calls the DARK Act.
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