Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexico affiliate, Via Organica.
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Views Thursday, April 28, 2016 Is a GMO Labeling Victory within Our Grasp? Oh, to be a fly on the wall inside the offices of the top lobbyists for the Grocery Manufacturers Association. So close to the July 1 deadline for complying with Vermont’s GMO labeling law, and still no court ruling to overturn Vermont’s law. Still no federal legislation to preempt Vermont’s law... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 11, 2016 Monsanto’s Evil Twin: Disturbing Facts About the Fertilizer Industry What do you know about the worldwide chemical fertilizer industry? If you’re like most people, not much. There’s plenty of press coverage and consumer awareness when it comes to genetically engineered food and crops, and the environmental hazards of pesticides and animal drugs. But the fertilizer... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 24, 2016 Food Companies Plan to Label GMOs—but Is There More to the Story? The world’s largest food corporations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars (some of it illegally ) to avoid being required to label the genetically engineered ingredients in their products. But with the July 1 deadline for complying with Vermont’s GMO labeling law on the horizon, a handful of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 10, 2015 US Should Join French and Civil Society in Initiative to Solve Global Warming with Regenerative Farming Plan France, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the U.K., Germany and Mexico are among the more than two dozen countries that have so far signed on to what one day will likely be recognized as the most significant climate initiative in history. France’s 4/1000 Initiative: Soils for Food Security and Climate... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 03, 2015 Message from Paris: We Can Reverse Global Warming “Humanity stands at the edge of an abyss. We have destroyed the planet, its biodiversity, our water and the climate, and through this destruction, we have destroyed the ecological context for our survival as a species. Ecological destruction and resource grab are generating conflicts, which are... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 28, 2015 From ‘Sustainable’ to ‘Regenerative’—The Future of Food Earlier this week, the paywalled site PoliticoPro reported that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture wants "farmers and agricultural interests to come up with a single definition of sustainability in order to avoid confusing the public with various meanings of the term in food and production methods... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 06, 2015 Food Fight 2015: Taking Down the Degenerators If governments won’t solve the climate, hunger, health, and democracy crisis, then the people will… Regenerative agriculture provides answers to the soil crisis, the food crisis, the health crisis, the climate crisis and the crisis of democracy. - Dr. Vandana Shiva, speaking at the founding meeting... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 24, 2015 You Don’t Matter. House Votes for Monsanto’s Right to Deceive Consumers On Thursday, 275 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 1599, the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act. By voting for the DARK Act, these politicians voted against truth and transparency, against science, against the more than century-old right of states to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Crisis: Regeneration or Degeneration? "If governments won’t solve the climate, hunger, health, and democracy crises, then the people will." —Dr. Vandana Shiva, speaking at the founding meeting of Regeneration International, La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica, June 8, 2015 When literally billions of people, the 99 percent, are hungry... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 01, 2015 Factory Farm Meat: Why Vegetarians, Ranchers and Conscious Omnivores Need to Unite For the first time since the advent of industrial agriculture, the federal government is considering advising Americans to eat “less red and processed meat.” That advice is the outcome of studies conducted by an independent panel of “experts” which was asked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (... Read more |