Advocacy

USDA recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) proposing a full-scale deregulation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready sugar beets. Take action!

Antibacterial soap component triclosan is being spread on conventional farm fields across the country. Its incredible rise in popluarity over the last few years has collided with the practice of using sewage sludge to grow food, creating yet another nearly inescapable toxic chemical.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) as it is currently written is one-sized-fits all putting small farmers and local value-added producers at risk. Size-appropriate Food Safety plans should be available and accessible to farmers and processors of all kinds.

Research on the safety of nanotechnology is in its infancy, but what has been published raises red flags about the impacts of these incredibly invasive and long-lasting particles on our environment and our bodies. Tell the USDA nanotechnology and certified organic do not mix.

The Gates Foundation holds millions of dollars of Monsanto stock and has promoted industrial farming and inappropriate technologies in struggling African communities. Tell them it's time to support real solutions to hunger, poverty and climate change with small-scale agroecological farming.

Comments due by December 13th on five National Organic Program draft documents to guide production and processing including compost and vermicompost, wild crafting, outdoor access for poultry and comingling prevention. Be heard now!

The world's first seed bank is currently slated to be ripped from the ground to make room for a housing development. Russia's Pavlovsk Experimental Station is a federally-run field collection of over 5,000 edibles and ornamentals, all of which are difficult to breed from seed and many of which aren't stored in any other location.

Nearly 70% of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to healthy animals in their regular rations of feed. And, the overuse of these medications in livestock production has been proven to contribute to antibiotic resistance—a growing 35 billion dollar threat to our health. Take action now!

Every day we slather ourselves with shampoos, cleansers, creams, oils, powders and more. But if you've ever looked at the ingredients on any one of those products, you'll see a list of unpronounceable and certainly unrecognizable chemicals. Take action now!

With joblessness at an all-time high and unemployment benefits coming to an end for many, the United Farm Workers (UFW) have launched the Take Our Jobs campaign challenging Americans to step up and linking willing (and legal) workers with jobs on farms across the country.