Facing the Xtremes

After seven generations of industrial Business as Usual -- burning up fossil fuels, waging war on nature and public health, and discharging greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere like there's no tomorrow -- we've peaked. Held hostage energy corporations, make-believe terrorist threats, and indentured politicians, we...

More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, local as a marketing claim has grown by 15 percent from 2009 to 2010, and it's likely that number will...

My recent expose, "The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?" has ignited a long-overdue debate on how to stop Monsanto's earth killing, market-monopolizing, climate-destabilizing rampage. Should we resign ourselves to the fact that the Biotech Bully of St. Louis controls the dynamics of the marketplace and public...

February 3, 2011 - Ronnie responds to reader comments with a new article (submitted but not yet published here at Huffington Post): Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions

"The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a...

TAKE ACTION: Stop GMO Contamination of Organic! http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14469696

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it."
Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March...

December 7, 2010, Cancún, Mexico - On a beautiful sunny morning, marching down the Avenida Tulúm, our five thousand strong brigade of climate change activists, armed with colorful flags, hats, signs, and banners, supercharged with lively music and drummers, are making our voices heard: "Cambie el sistema, no la clima"...

The Good News: Growth of the Global Grassroots

Dolores Hildalgo, Mexico - Sunday November 28

On a beautiful sunny afternoon several hundred campesinos and community activists have gathered in the Alameda or central park of Dolores Hildalgo, Guanajuato. People are assembled here today, in the high desert agricultural heartland of...

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is holding its twice-yearly standards-setting meeting in Madison, WI, this week. Organic Consumers Association's Political Director, Alexis Baden-Mayer, is there. Here's her live blog.

8:28 am - Over the last twelve years the OCA has been forced to organize a series of national campaigns...

This article was written by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association's Political Director. Take action to keep synthetic sulfites out of organic wine: Consumer Alert: Organic Wine Standards Under Attack.

The USDA organic standards exist to ensure consumers that the food and agricultural products they are purchasing have been...

Despite decades of deception and mystification, a critical mass at the grassroots is waking up. A new generation of food and climate activists understands that greenhouse gas-belching fossil fuels, industrial food and farming, and our entire global economy pose a mortal threat, not just to our present health and well...

This article was written by the Organic Consumers Association's Political Director, Alexis Baden-Mayer. To take action to stop Frankenfish, please click here.

Kellogg's Tells Consumers Why They Love Their Monsanto-Made Frankenfoods

Members of the Organic Consumers Association who recently joined the group's Kellogg's boycott, received this letter from Christina Calleros, Kellogg's "Consumer Specialist":

Thank you for your comments regarding the use of biotechnology ingredients. Like you, we want only the best...

Non-Organic Cosmetics...

10. Fuel Oil Addiction

There's an oil spill leaking from U.S. bathrooms that's roughly the same size as the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming from the petrochemical-based cosmetics we're rubbing into our hair and skin and rinsing down the drain.

9. Spawn...

This is an excerpt from Food Agenda 2020: The Organic Alternative.

The future of life on this planet may depend on what we eat. Factory farmed junk food is the #1 cause of climate change, but we can save the planet by going organic.

The greenhouse gas emissions...

Ask Your Congresspersons to Cosponsor HR 5577, Representative Kucinich's Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act!

Dan Quayle couldn't spell potato, but he made sure they'd be genetically engineered. Here's how Monsanto got their permit to poison us:

On May 26, 1992, George Bush's Vice-President, Dan Quayle, proclaimed the Bush administration's new policy on bioengineered food.

"The reforms we announce today will speed up...

President Obama knows that agribusiness cannot be trusted with the policy and regulatory powers of government. On the campaign trail in 2007, he promised:

We'll tell ConAgra that it's not the Department of Agribusiness. It's the Department of Agriculture. We're going to put the people's interests ahead of...

The FDA is looking at what might be the first genetically engineered animal to hit our dinner plates: salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate.

The FDA reviews genetically engineered animals in a secret process that protects what they consider the company's proprietary information, so we don't know...

Gen-M, "Generation Monsanto," the first generation of humans force-fed genetically modified foods, hasn't reached reproductive age yet (they were born in the late 1990s). But, if a critical mass of animal feeding studies are any indication, the millennial generation, reared on Food Inc.'s unlabeled "Frankenfoods" can...

There's an oil spill in U.S. bathrooms that's roughly the same size as the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming from the petrochemical-based cosmetics we're rubbing into our hair and skin and rinsing down the drain. U.S. oil addiction isn't limited to the fuel in our cars....