Hungry in America Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are going hungry each day. Not only are the ranks of the poor and hungry multiplying, but now even working class and middle class families and individuals are showing up at soup kitchens and food stamp offices. “Hungry in America” is a feature-length documentary that [...]
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Spread the Organic Revolution
October 29th, 2009 
Jennifer Goodwin OCA Needs Your Help to Spread the Organic Revolution OCA and a growing corps of organic consumers understand that we have a positive healthy solution for the nation and the globe’s food, health, economic, and climate crisis: organic food, farming, and ranching. But to get out our all-important message we need your support and your [...]
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No Comments »Revolutionary Food Labeling Helps Swedes Cut Carbon
October 29th, 2009 Jennifer Goodwin Organic News OF THE WEEK Revolutionary Food Labeling Helps Swedes Cut Carbon Last week, we reported on cutting-edge research by the Rodale Institute demonstrating that by transitioning all of the world’s farmland to organic, we could sequester 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As Rodale and more and more soil scientists are pointing out, if [...]
Posted in Good Food, Organic Consumers Organization, Political Tags: agriculture, Carbon, chaos, chemical, climate, consumers, distribution, emissions, energy, food, forestry, grassroots, greenhouse, Institute, items, Last, mass, planet, product, restaurant, revolution, Revolutionary, Rodale, solution, Swedes, transition, world No Comments »Alert of the Week: Stop Siddiqui!
October 29th, 2009 Jennifer Goodwin digg_url = “http://thatjengirl.com/2009/10/29/alert-of-the-week-stop-siddiqui/”;digg_title = “Alert of the Week: Stop Siddiqui!”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Alert of the Week Stop Siddiqui! Islam Siddiqui has been nominated as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. If Congress confirms Siddiqui, he will no doubt continue [...]
Posted in Bad Food, Organic Consumers Organization, Political Tags: Administration, allies, America, Another, Association, backlash, chemical, Chief Agricultural Negotiator, clients, climate, Clinton, corporations, CropLife, DuPont, food, foods, garden, government, health, House, letter, Michelle, Monsanto, Obama, organic, pesticides, proposals, regulations, rejection, Representative, Save, sewage, Siddiqui Islam, sludge, Standards, Syngenta, Trade, USDA, Washington, White No Comments »Obama, Which Side Are You On?
October 29th, 2009 Jennifer Goodwin digg_url = “http://www.holisticchick.com/green/obama-which-side-are-you-on/”;digg_title = “Obama, Which Side Are You On?”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Quote of the Week: Obama, Which Side Are You On? "Organic agriculture can feed the world, turn back climate change and make food production more resilient to droughts and floods. Organic agriculture can [...]
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