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4 weeks ago | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Wyatte Grantham-Philips |Nicole Karlis |Adrienne Lamb
Organic BytesNewsletter #888: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS! On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole that allows dangerous food additives to enter the marketplace without premarket safety testing.
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2 months ago | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Chiana Dickson |Libby Leonard |Jess Cockerill
Organic BytesNewsletter #881: Farms Shouldn’t Be Toxic Sewage Sludge Dumps! In a classic kick-the-can-down-the-road move, on January 14, 2025, the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency finally admitted “forever chemicals” are contaminating U.S. farmland because of the EPA’s own long-standing policy of promoting toxic sewage sludge “fertilizer” as the way to dispose of waste from water-treatment plants.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Chelsea Rae Bourgeois
Organic BytesNewsletter #880: Glyphosate Harms Infants’ Health! Pamela Ferdinand, U.S. Right to Know:“Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide best known as the active ingredient in Roundup®, has significantly harmed the health of babies in rural U.S. communities over the last two decades—especially those already at risk of poor birth outcomes, new research shows.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Emily Kwong |Regina Barber |Rachel Carlson
Organic BytesNewsletter #878: PFAS Linked To Serious Health Problems! Guardian staff, The Guardian:“PFAS have been used in manufacturing and added to consumer products for decades. They are used across dozens of industries and in a huge range of consumer products because they are so effective at making items resistant to water, stains and grease. Your non-stick frying pan, for example, probably uses PFAS to make the “non-stick” coating.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Evan Bush |Ketura Persellin |Timothy A. Wise
Organic BytesNewsletter #874: 5 GMOs the New FDA Should Take Off the Market Since the George H.W. Bush Administration, the FDA has treated genetically engineered synthetics the same as normal foods, allowing them to be approved without safety-testing or post-market monitoring through the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole. President Donald Trump could change this.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes
By Tim Giago, Native Sun News:“Sean Sherman, founder and CEO of The Sioux Chef and the author of The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, may have complicated and painful feelings about Thanksgiving, but is offering up new ways to observe it. Sherman, who hails from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said the following in a piece for TIME Magazine, which you should absolutely read in full:‘The thing is, we do not need the poisonous ‘pilgrims and Indians’ narrative.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Issy Ronald
Beyond Pesticides reports:“According to Senator Booker, “School meals should be a child’s safest source of nourishment, not another source of toxic exposure.”
The overwhelmingly large body of scientific findings on the adverse effects of pesticides in the food that children eat in schools and generally.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Juana Vera Delgado |Chithira Vijayakumar
Carey Giliam writes for The New Lede:“New types of Roundup weed killing products marketed to US consumers contain chemicals that pose greater health risks to people than prior formulations suspected of causing cancer, according to an analysis by an environmental health advocacy group.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Liz Stewart
Given the magnitude of the current crisis, we at OCA believe we need to expand our redemptive message of Regeneration to encompass, not only the next stage of organic food and farming and land use, but also our political policies and practices. We must step up our efforts, not only championing organic food and farming, but international peace and economic justice, civil liberties, participatory democracy, and regenerating health, both mental and physical.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Justin Wheeler |Scott Black |Deborah Seiler
By Justin Wheeler, Scott Hoffman Black and Deborah Seiler, The Xerces Society:“Here are some simple ways you can help the fascinating invertebrates who may call your yard or garden home!Leave the leaves, or move them just a bit. Leaving the leaves and other plant debris doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your yard to the wilderness. A thin layer of leaves is actually healthy for grass, but the leaves also don’t need to be left exactly where they fall.
