OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial issues around food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, including pesticide use, and other food- and agriculture-related topics.In the U.S., OCA education campaigns reach more than two million consumers and organic businesses either through our newsletter, our social media networks or mainstream and progressive news outlets. Our U.S. and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
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OCA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying. We address crucial issues around food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, including pesticide use, and other food- and agriculture-related topics.In the U.S., OCA education campaigns reach more than two million consumers and organic businesses either through our newsletter, our social media networks or mainstream and progressive news outlets. Our U.S. and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
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May 7, 2024
The 3 Trade Lawyers Who Will Decide If Mexicans Can Be Forced to Eat the U.S.’s GMO Corn
Mexico has been making bold policy moves against genetically modified crops and the toxic pesticides they were engineered to be grown with, by phasing-out imports of GMO corn and showing its support for food sovereignty, soil regeneration and agroecology.<br /><br /><br />But, how serious could Mexico be, if it is now ceding its national sovereignty to a three-person panel of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) under which the United States is challenging its 2023 Corn Decree?<br /><br />Supposedly, Mexico wants food sovereignty and self-sufficiency, but apparently, it values trade with the United States and Canada so much that it is willing to let its democratically enacted laws be superseded by this so-called “free-trade” agreement. (What’s so “free” about it, if it can be used to force a country to import stuff it doesn’t want?!)<br />
April 9, 2024
Don’t Give Up Control Over Public Health to the World Health Organization
<b>Who should decide when there’s a pandemic and what to do about it?</b><br /><br /><br />That’s what’s at stake as the World Health Organization debates amendments to the International Health Regulations and considers a new pandemic treaty.<br /><br />Currently, national governments have sovereignty over these decisions, and while they may look to the World Health Organization for guidance, ultimately, they must answer to the people of their countries and they can be held accountable under their countries’ legal frameworks. <br /><br />The new agreements countries are considering at the World Health Organization is an attempt to subordinate nation-states to an unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable international authority.<br /><br /><a href="https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/66233/action/1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to stop the World Health Organization’s power grab!</b></a><br />
July 18, 2023
Blocking the Sun Is NOT a Climate Solution!
<a href="https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/54687/action/1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to say no to solar geoengineering!</b></a><br /><br />“[W]hen you start to reflect light away from the planet, you can easily imagine a chain of events that would extinguish life on earth.”<br />That’s what <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith_(physicist)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">David Keith</a>, one of the world’s top solar engineering scientists, told the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/14/the-climate-fixers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New Yorker</a> about his own life’s work.<br /><br />With a warning like that, it’s easy to see why Mexico is <a href="https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/2023/01/by-prohibiting-solar-geoengineering-experiments-mexico-sets-a-global-example-of-precaution/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">banning solar geoengineering</a>. That, and the fact that a start-up called “Make Sunsets” was caught trying to block the sun in Baja California Sur—without permission from, or even notifying, the government!<br /><br />Moving in the other direction, the Biden Administration is officially exploring ways to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Congressionally-Mandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stop sunlight from reaching the Earth</a>, while the European Union has recently floated “<a href="https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/2023/JOIN_2023_19_1_EN_ACT_part1_v7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a potential international framework</a>” for going forward with research into this misguided and ineffective attempt to address the global climate crisis.<br /><br />Few policy makers in the U.S. have tried to wrap their heads around this issue, but a group of Rhode Island state legislators have drafted a bill, the <a href="http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText23/HouseText23/H5866.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Atmosphere Protection Act</a> that’s a great introduction.<br /><br /><a href="https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/54687/action/1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to say no to solar geoengineering!</b></a>
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