This Action Alert is Over. GMO Apples? The USDA’sAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service is poised to approve a genetically engineered apple, called the Arctic Apple®. The public comment period runs through Monday, December 16. Click here to read Cornucopia’s submitted comments. You can comment directly here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=APHIS-2012-0025-1938 Okanagan Specialty Fruits has developed a GMO Golden… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Defend Our Safest Farms/Food – Comment Today to FDA (deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern)
(This Action Alert is Over) FDA Food Safety Comment Closes Today, Nov. 22 Your Electronic Voice Can Help Save the Family Farms Producing Our Nation’s Best Food You can make a difference! It’s the last hour. If you have yet to do so, you have until 11:59 PM Eastern Time today, November 22 to comment directly… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Proxy or Not, Here’s a Way to Amplify Your Voice in Defense of our Safest Farms/Food
(This Action Alert is Over) FDA Food Safety Comment Deadline is Nov. 15 Your Electronic Voice Can Help Save the Family Farms Producing Our Nation’s Best Food You can make a difference! It’s the 11th hour. Please comment directly on the FDA’s food safety web page to help save our nation’s organic/local produce farmers from… Read more »
DEADLINE: Get Your Proxy in—FDA Rules Could Force Local/Organic Farms Out Of Business
(This Action Alert is Over) FDA DEADLINE APPROACHING: Please Get Your Proxy in the Mail ASAP Your Voice Could Make the Difference in Saving the Family Farms Producing Our Best Food You can make a difference. Please help save our nation’s diversified produce farmers from potential ruin! The FDA’s proposed food safety rules threaten to ensnare… Read more »
NO GOOD FARMS—NO GOOD FOOD: Tell the FDA to Back Off — New Regs Could Crush Organic/Local Farmers
(This Action Alert is Over) The FDA’s new food safety rules have the real potential to force some of the safest local and organic farms out of business! There is a critical need for the good food community to come together right now. Please sign and mail back the linked proxy-letter today! (Mail your proxy to… Read more »
EPA Raised Residue Limits of Monsanto’s Glyphosate Herbicide
Toxic herbicide linked to serious health impacts – EPA puts Monsanto’s profits over public health Comment before Monday, July 1, 2013 at 11:59 PM ET (This alert is over) The EPA has issued a new rule raising the allowed residue levels of Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) on food. Comment today to let the EPA know… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Stand with Family Farmers — Protect Them from a Tax Benefiting Agribusiness
(This Action Alert is Over) Federal Research and Marketing Promotion Programs = Robin Hood in Reverse Call your senators now to tell them to support SA 1083. — Senator Cruz amendment to the Farm Bill This amendment to the Farm Bill allows farmers to voluntarily choose whether or not they pay into Federal “checkoff” programs. … Read more »
Unbelievable! USDA Power Grab Should Not Go Unchallenged
(This Action Alert is Over) USDA violates the Organic Foods Production Act Draft rule on carrageenan, cellulose and “inert” synthetics in pesticides disregards decisions by the National Organic Standards Board Comment before Monday, June 3, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET Political corruption and power grabs usually happen behind closed doors. The Cornucopia Institute has consistently… Read more »
GMOs: Tell Makers of Similac That Our Babies Are Not “Human Lab Rats”
[This action alert is over.] GMOs—foods that have been genetically engineered by Monsanto and other chemical manufacturers—have never been adequately tested for long-term human health or environmental safety. Many of the ingredients used in infant formula, especially soy-based formula, are derived from crops that have been genetically altered to internally produce pesticides or to be… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Tell the USDA — No Illegal/Unreviewed Synthetics in Organics!
[This Action Alert is Over] Sneaking Synthetics into Organics Close the Loophole – Submit a Comment to the National Organic Standards Board Comments due Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (11:59 pm EST) Think you’re avoiding synthetic ingredients like sodium benzoate and polysorbate 80 by choosing organic? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. The organic law clearly… Read more »
