Organic Consumers Association

OCA is a grassroots nonprofit organization recognized as a 501(c)3, dedicated to advocating for the perspectives and needs of approximately 50 million consumers in the U.S. who prefer organic and socially responsible food and products. It stands out as the sole organization in the country with this specific mission.

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Organic Bytes Newsletter #888: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS!

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.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #881: Farms Shouldn’t Be Toxic Sewage Sludge Dumps

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.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #880: Glyphosate Harms Infants’ Health

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.
What Trump’s Exit From The Climate Deal Really Means

Jan 21, 2025 | organicconsumers.org | Sara Schonhardt |Zack Colman |Karl Mathiesen

January 20, 2025 | Source: Politico | by Sara Schonhardt, Zack Colman and Karl MathiesenPresident Donald Trump ordered the U.S. on Monday to withdraw once again from the 2015 Paris climate agreement — instantly isolating the country from the global campaign to stem catastrophic warming. This time, Trump’s repudiation of the worldwide climate effort could bite deeper by taking effect more quickly and at a time when the new president has more far-right allies overseas and at home.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #878: PFAS Linked To Serious Health Problems

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.
A ‘Doom Loop’ of Climate Change and Geopolitical Instability Is Beginning

Dec 11, 2024 | organicconsumers.org | Laurie Laybourn |James Dyke

December 09, 2024 | Source: THE CONVERSATION | by and It is a common refrain to say that geopolitics gets in the way of climate action. From the war in Ukraine to trade tensions, each year seems to bring another immediate priority that diverts focus from the imperative to act on climate change. This dynamic was on show at the recent UN climate conference – Cop29 – in Azerbaijan. Many world leaders stayed at home, busy handling political crises and conflict.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #874: 5 GMOs the New FDA Should Take Off the Market

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.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #873: Tell General Mills To Reject GMO Wheat!

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.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #872: Neonic Pesticides are Harming Bees, Babies, and Planetary Health

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.
Organic Bytes Newsletter #871: Organic/Regenerative Is the Way Out of Our Toxic, Degenerative Agriculture Model

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.