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Organic Bytes Newsletter #893: Costco, Stop Pushing Toxic Roundup! - Organic Consumers TAKE ACTION Tell Costco: Stop Pushing Toxic Roundup! In 2019, Costco reportedly stopped selling Roundup weed killer, but now it’s back. What’s up with that? The Roundup Costco sells now has an “Exc...

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🇲🇽Mexico bans GM corn
☠️Tell Costco: Drop Roundup
🌱Why organic + regenerative food works
🏡How to cut chemicals at home
☀️What really makes us thrive
Healthy living starts here

Organic Bytes Newsletter #891: Quorn, Inflammation & Depression - Organic Consumers Watch this inspiring video to learn why your support is so important! SUPPORT THE OCA Join Us in Keeping the Mission Alive Making a donation is a powerful way to stand with the movement. Many in o...

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🍅 Food, health & the environment: hidden CT scan risks, toxic chemicals, fake meat dangers, turmeric’s power, Roundup fights, plant sentience, bee protection & more. Stay informed, stay healthy!

Basic Prepping: Smart (and Panic-Free) Planning - Organic Consumers October 07, 2023 | Source: Attainable Sustainable | by Kris Bordessa I tend to maintain a pretty full pantry, so when things get dicey I don’t have to do a lot of over-the-top shopping, but not ever...

Learn about foraging and gleaning, what basic baking supplies and pantry food items to have on hand, and extending the life of your food: orgcns.org/4iaGz2K

TAKE ACTION: Tell Sec. Kennedy: Ban Insecticide-Producing GMOs! Along with engineering crops to be soaked in carcinogenic herbicides, Monsanto had another bright idea: to genetically modify plants to produce insecticidal toxins. Unsurprisingly, after nearly 30 ye...

TAKE ACTION: Tell Sec. Kennedy: Safety-Test & Ban Insecticide-Producing GMOs! orgcns.org/4ibm8m6

Will Pesticide-Producing GMOs Finally Get the Scientific Review Waived By Earlier Administrations? It’s Up to Kennedy - Organic Consumers April 9, 2025 | Source: Organic Consumers Association Along with engineering crops to be soaked in carcinogenic herbicides, Monsanto had another dastardly plan: to genetically modify plants to produ...

Will Pesticide-Producing GMOs Finally Get the Scientific Review Waived By Earlier Administrations? It’s Up to Kennedy: orgcns.org/3RFDD31

Organic Bytes Newsletter #890: GMOs: We Eat More Poisons With Every Bite - Organic Consumers GENETIC ENGINEERING Insecticide-Producing GMOs Monsanto had two big ideas for how to “improve” crops with genetic engineering. The first was to make them impervious to herbicides. The second was to...

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The food system is in crisis—from GMOs to microplastics. In this issue: GMO insecticides, toxins in produce, Coca-Cola’s greenwashing, agroforestry funding cuts & more.
Stay informed. Take action. Go organic & regenerative!

Local Land Conservation Provides Glimmer of Hope in the New Trump Era - Organic Consumers February 14, 2025 | Source: Eath.org | by Colin Rhodes Land conservation is a critical need in the US as natural lands have been heavily converted for agriculture, suburban and urban development. N...

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PlasticList Report - Organic Consumers December 27, 2025 | Source: PlasticList Six months ago, we launched what seemed like a quick and easy project: to test 100 everyday foods for the presence of plastic chemicals. Sounds like fun, righ...

Are Plastic Chemicals in Our Food?
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TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Save Local, Regenerative & Organic! Organic farmers have never needed you more! Trump's USDA is still withholding payments owed to 30,715 local, regenerative and organic farmers promised $2.3 billion, including a grant OCA administers ...

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to force Trump’s USDA to fulfill farmer contracts! orgcns.org/3tTuUC4

Bees Are Not Declining Everywhere: A Global Perspective on Population Trends - Organic Consumers March 26, 2025 | Source: Earth.org | by Madina Tussupov For years, media headlines have depicted a dire situation regarding global bee populations. While it is true that honey bee numbers in certain...

Bees Are Not Declining Everywhere: A Global Perspective on Population Trends- orgcns.org/3QVvJlY

Are Frozen Vegetables More Nutritious Than Fresh Ones? - Organic Consumers March 06, 2025 | Source: Food & Wine | by Merlyn Miller Turning to frozen vegetables may sometimes feel like you’re taking a shortcut in the kitchen. They are affordable and last much longer than that head of fresh broccoli decomposing in your crisper drawer,

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Staying Rooted in Uncertainty: Organic Bytes orgcns.org/4iRSUd1

🍅 From bribery and deforestation to bee populations and “forever chemicals,” we’re covering the key issues shaping organic farming. Dive into the latest news, research, and stories from the regenerative community.

Indigenous-Owned Alberta Company Making Better Building Blocks — With Hemp - Organic Consumers February 12, 2025 | Source: CBC News | by Adrienne Lamb, Rick Bremness A new manufacturing plant in the northeastern Alberta community of Elk Point is blending hemp and other additives into concrete ...

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Georgia Jury Orders Monsanto Parent To Pay Nearly $2.1 Billion in Roundup Weedkiller Lawsuit - Organic Consumers March 24, 2025 | Source: AP News | by Wyatte Grantham-Philips NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’...

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Altruism Is Actually a Fantastic Survival Strategy - Organic Consumers March 16, 2025 | Source: Salon | by Nicole Karlis On a tiny island called Cayo Santiago off the coast of Puerto Rico exists a colony of about 1,800 rhesus macaques. Each weighing about 20 pounds and...

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Organic Bytes Newsletter #888: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS! - Organic Consumers GMOs Tell Sec. Kennedy: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole that allows dangerous food additives to enter

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Tell Secretary Kennedy GMOs aren’t GRAS! The FDA’s loophole lets Monsanto push untested GMOs linked to cancer. Monsanto’s parent hit with $2.1B Roundup lawsuit. Plus, hemp is transforming sustainable building in Alberta.

The Truth About Bread — Why Your Ancestors Could Digest It (And Why You Might Not) - Organic Consumers March 18, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Ashley Armstrong For thousands of years, bread has been essential to human nutrition — a dietary staple enjoyed daily across countless cultures, likely beca...

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Ultra-Processed Babies: Are Toddler Snacks One of the Great Food Scandals of Our Time? - Organic Consumers March 15, 2025 | Source: The Guardian | by Bee Wilson Acouple of years ago, nursery manager Melanie Smith, who runs Portland Kindergarten in Lincoln, noticed that many children were eating in a new w...

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Glyphosate Poses Widespread Risks to Female Fertility and Reproductive Health, Researchers Say - Organic Consumers March 15, 2025 | Source: U.S. Right to Know | by Pamela Ferdinand Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, disrupts female hormones and damages the ovaries and uterus in ways that can mak...

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A Cookbook From the Host of ‘Outdoor Chef Life’ Entices Us to Fish, Forage, and Feast - Organic Consumers March 18, 2025 | Source: Civil Eats | by Momo Chang In a Pacific tidepool in Northern California, Taku Kondo squats down, seawater sloshing around his ankles, and examines the rocks below the water...

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Bayer’s latest scheme, glyphosate’s fertility risks, and the dark side of avocados. Plus, a foraging cookbook & RFK Jr.’s bold challenge to food CEOs.

For a Happier Life, We Must Balance Two Old Psychological Needs - Organic Consumers March 10, 2025 | Source: PSYCHE | by Williams Von Hippel Most of us know people who struggle to be happy despite having it all. I remember visiting my friend Steve after he struck it rich, and being...

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TAKE ACTION: Tell Sec. Kennedy to Restore Our Right to Sue Big Pharma! Did you know that if you or a loved one is injured or killed by a vaccine or pharmaceutical drug, you may have no legal recourse, if the pharmaceutical company responsible is covered by a Public Readi...

Ending Big Pharma’s Legal Immunity: The Case Against the PREP Act orgcns.org/3FoiSWS

TAKE ACTION: Ask your state legislator to support a ban on bee-killing neonic seed treatments. Honey bee colony losses continue at alarming rates. In the 2022-2023 season, commercial beekeepers saw a mortality rate of 48.2 percent in their hives, almost as bad as the 2020-2021 season with the h...

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USDA Cancels $1B in Local Food Purchasing for Schools, Food banks orgcns.org/3DFsfB1

Organic Bytes Newsletter #886: Hold Corporations Accountable for Deaths and Injuries they Cause - Organic Consumers TAKE ACTION Ending Big Pharma’s Legal Immunity: The Case Against the PREP Act We don’t all agree on the best way to prevent and treat disease. Even among doctors, there’s a wide range of opinions ...

Organic Bytes This Week 🌱✨ orgcns.org/3FrjKKm
💊 Big Pharma’s Legal Immunity
🥕 USDA Cuts $1B
🌿 Urban Botanists
🐝 Scientists Intimidated
🌬️ Air Pollution & Metabolic health
🏕️ National Parks
🍽️ Food Sovereignty in film
☠️ Microplastics & plant photosynthesis
🍅 And more - Stay informed stay empowered!

Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid - Organic Consumers March 03, 2025 | Source: Civil Eats | by Kate Nelson In the Arctic and Far North, where a successful hunt can mean the difference between feeding the village or scrounging to make ends meet, one mig...

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The Corn Saga: How Years of Activism, Scientific Research and Perseverance Led to an Inspiring Victory Against Big Ag and the GMO Giants - Organic Consumers March 05, 2025 | Source: Organic Consumers Association, Regeneration International, and Vía Orgánica | by Ercilia Sahores and Mercedes López **UPDATE 3/6/2025: After five hours of deliberation, with...

Great News in the Fight To Protect Native Corn in Mexico! orgcns.org/4hbGGKX

What Consumers Should Ask About Precision Fermentation - Organic Consumers March 02, 2022 | Source: Forbes | by Errol Schweizer Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as milk protein, animal fats,

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The Role of Sun Exposure in Optimizing Your Cellular Health - Organic Consumers March 02, 2025 | Source: Mercola.com | by Dr. Joseph Mercola The role of sun exposure for your well-being is a topic that’s close to my heart, and for more than two decades it’s one of the top recom...

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