Katherine Paul
Katherine Paul, former communications director for Common Dreams, is now the associate director of the Organic Consumers Association.
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 When Will We Start Applying the Precautionary Principle to the Chemicals that Are Killing Our Kids? The first car my parents carted me and my siblings around in, in the 1950s, didn’t even have seatbelts. Not one of us was ever strapped into a car seat. No kid I knew donned a helmet before hopping on her bike. When I was a kid, there were no government-regulated safety standards for cribs or... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 22, 2018 From 'Sea to Shining Sea,' Industrial Ag Fouls America's Waterways A citizen-led group in Nebraska is fighting Costco’s plan to build a huge chicken factory farm operation that residents in nearby cities say would pollute their drinking water. Residents of Devils Lake, North Dakota, along with members of the Spirit Lake Nation Tribe are battling plans to build a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 01, 2018 Trump's 'Harvest Boxes:' A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Idea It’s not every day that the crowd at a Washington, D.C. policy conference gets rowdy. But that was the scene on Tuesday (Feb. 26) at the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference. It happened when the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) top nutrition official (and keynote speaker) Brandon Lipps... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Is Big Food's Lobbying Arm on the Brink of Extinction? At the height of the GMO labeling battle, we not-so-fondly referred to the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) as “ Monsanto’s Evil Twin. ” Last week, a former GMA executive told Politico that to him, the food industry lobbying group seems like “the dinosaur waiting to die.” For consumers who... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 17, 2017 Popular Thanksgiving Turkey Brand Comes with a Side of Antibiotics? Diestel Turkey, sold by Whole Foods and other retailers at premium prices, says on its website that its “animals are never given hormones, antibiotics or growth stimulants.” But Diestel Turkey samples tested by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) suggest otherwise, leading consumers to wonder:... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 19, 2017 World Food Prize: Feeding the World a Slick Campaign of Lies Tonight (October 19, 2017), the World Food Prize will be ceremoniously bestowed on yet another cheerleader for degenerative agriculture. This year’s award goes to Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina of Nigeria, president of the African Development Bank, and a proud supporter of Big Ag and Biotech. In his... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 20, 2017 Organics: Ferreting Out the Fraudulent Few, While Demanding Higher Standards, Better Enforcement A recent series of articles by a Washington Post reporter could have some consumers questioning the value of the USDA organic seal. But are a few bad eggs representative of an entire industry? Consumers are all for cracking down on the fraudulent few who, with the help of Big Food, big retail... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 20, 2017 International Monsanto Tribunal Calls for Human Rights Over Corporate Rights Most opinion tribunals have had a considerable impact, and it is now accepted that they contribute to the progressive development of international law. – International Monsanto Tribunal Advisory Opinion, The Hague, April 18, 2017 On Tuesday, April 18, representatives of the Organic Consumers... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 23, 2017 Congress Must Investigate Collusion Between Monsanto and the EPA. Now. “I have cancer, and I don’t want these serious issues in HED [EPA’s Health Effects Division] to go unaddressed before I go to my grave. I have done my duty.” It’s been four years since Marion Copley, a 30-year EPA toxicologist, wrote those words to her then-colleague, Jess Rowland, accusing him of... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 27, 2017 Trump’s Pick for Ag Secretary Has ‘Bigly’ Ties to Big Ag and Big Food In announcing his pick last week for Secretary of Agriculture, Trump heaped predictable praise on Sonny Perdue, promising that the former governor of Georgia will “deliver big results for all Americans who earn their living off the land." We predict that Perdue will indeed deliver “big” results—but... Read more |