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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, 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 |
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Views Wednesday, January 07, 2015 Consumer Self-Defense: 12 Ways to Drive GMOs and Roundup off the Market "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." - New York Times , Oct. 25, 1998 "[GMO] Labeling advocates say the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Organic Consumer Pressure Works—Stonyfield Quits International Dairy Foods Group In the latest example of how consumers can pressure food companies to do the right thing, on Friday (December 5, 2014), Stonyfield Farm, a New Hampshire-based producer of organic milk and yogurt, became the second organic dairy company in five months to resign from the International Dairy Foods... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 05, 2014 Reversing Global Warming, Hunger and Poverty: Supercharging the Global Grassroots "It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed and regenerative. Seed saving, composting, fertilizing with manure, polycultures, no-till and raising livestock entirely on grass—all of which we associate today with sustainable food production—was the norm in the ‘... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 30, 2014 All Out for November 4th: Frankenfoods Fight at the Crossroads On November 4, final votes will be tallied in two hard-fought and highly publicized state mandatory GMO food labeling ballot initiatives: Measure 92 in Oregon and Initiative 105 in Colorado. It is no exaggeration to say that these two crucial ballot initiatives will quite likely determine the... Read more |