OCA, RI, and Hudson Carbon participated in a three-hour podcast sponsored by Dr. Meryl Nass and Youngsters’s Well being Protection TV on Saturday March 4. The panelists targeted on the worldwide assaults on meals and Organics and the options supplied by natural and native regenerative agriculture. The present was hosted by OCA Political Director Alexis Baden-Mayer.

Audio system included yours really, Ronnie Cummins, Dr. Joseph Mercola, James Corbett (Corbett Report), Andre Leu (Regeneration Worldwide), Ben Banks-Dobson (Hudson Carbon), Abby Rockefeller (Churchtown Dairy), Stephanie Seneff (Regeneration Well being Worldwide), Zen Honeycutt (Mothers Throughout America), Congressman Tom Massie (R-KY) and others.

You can watch the entire video podcast or any of the 15-20 minute presentations here: The Attack on Food Symposium & Solutions to Fight Back

Jose Luis Chicoma stories for Meals Tank:

“Probably the most biodiverse area on the planet, Latin America is an agroindustrial superpower that exports absolutely one fourth of its whole manufacturing. In contrast, one other agricultural superpower, Asia, exports solely 6 p.c of its manufacturing. Nonetheless Latin America has by no means succeeded in tapping into its agricultural wealth to adequately feed its inhabitants. In the mean time, not less than six international locations within the area are within the throes of a meals disaster, with almost 268 million Latin Individuals at the moment feeling the consequences of meals insecurity, with many hundreds of thousands extra certain to affix their ranks within the coming months.

The international locations in disaster—Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela—discover themselves on this state of affairs because of financial recessions, pure or climate-related disasters, waves of violence or widespread delinquency. On high of that, the invasion of Ukraine and ensuing spike in power prices, in addition to the lingering results of the coronavirus pandemic and a sequence of local weather shocks have sparked yet another excellent storm that’s plunging hundreds of thousands extra Latin Individuals into starvation… Because the colonization, the Spanish favored producing export commodities, comparable to sugar, over primary staples aimed toward feeding the native inhabitants. An analogous logic utilized to a string of different commodities, together with bananas, espresso, and cacao, in addition to grains and meat. Extra lately, Inexperienced Revolution-style agriculture has taken maintain all through a lot of the area, with giant swaths of land given over to this fertilizer- and pesticide-heavy manufacturing. Argentina and Brazil have guess massive on genetically modified soy and corn, which is exported to feed pigs and cattle in developed international locations and China. Monocultures additionally predominate, comparable to sugar, which is used to supply ethanol, and palm oil, a key ingredient in ultra-processed meals…”

Be taught extra: Latin America’s Meals Paradox

The Worldwide Coalition to Cease Designer Infants and GeneEthics ask you to assist defend the human genome in opposition to deliberate genetic modifications which might be handed on to kids and grand-children i.e. heritable human genetic modification.

Please sign our Declaration personally and/or as a gaggle. Name on the United Nations to create a world conference to completely ban heritable human gene modification and cloning. Additionally ship our request to others who could share your issues.
Email us with any queries or feedback.

Why maintain bans on modifying human genes? Many international locations have laws, laws, pointers, codes, and worldwide treaties which prohibit heritable human gene modification. No country explicitly permits it. The brand new worldwide Coalition to Cease Designer Infants defends these bans, to forestall infants being born with lab-designed traits that might be handed on to future generations. Please sign the Declaration to assist resist the GM bans being lifted!

The beginning of the primary gene-edited infants, introduced on the Second Worldwide Summit on Human Genome Enhancing in Hong Kong, in 2018, created stress to carry the bans on designer infants.

At OCA we have been angered and disgusted by three years of mainstream media lies on COVID-19, together with magazines just like the New Yorker. However often even the New Yorker—post-COVID—comes up with a superb article. Pulitzer Prize environmental reporter Elizabeth Kolbert writes concerning the plague of artificial phosphorus (and nitrogen) fertilizers in modern industrial agriculture.

“Fertilizers… boosted our capacity to feed the planet. Immediately they’re creating huge lifeless zones in our lakes and seas… Because the early nineteen-sixties and the beginning of the Inexperienced Revolution, world consumption of phosphorus fertilizers has greater than quadrupled. How lengthy the world’s reserves will final, given this pattern, is a matter of debate.

Because the planet’s inhabitants continues to climb—it lately reached eight billion and is predicted to hit 9 billion in fifteen years—increasingly more folks will should be fed. On the similar time, because the best-grade ores get mined out, increasingly more rock will presumably must be processed simply to carry fertilizer manufacturing regular. Some researchers say that “peak phosphorus,” the purpose at which the quantity of phosphorus being pulled from the bottom begins to say no, could possibly be reached throughout the subsequent decade…”

In fact, we don’t use phosphorus and nitrogen artificial fertilizers in natural agriculture, however quite pure compost. We have to jumpstart the transition to natural agriculture changing into the norm, not simply the choice.

Learn more: Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It

Lee Fang stories:

“The makers of Fruity Pebbles, Froot Loops, Fortunate Charms, and different standard cereal manufacturers are bitterly lobbying in opposition to a brand new Meals and Drug Administration proposal that might forestall them from labeling their merchandise as ‘wholesome.’

The proposed FDA rule mandates that meals labeled as wholesome should comprise a serious meals group — comparable to dairy, fruits, or complete grains — and should match sure limits on saturated fats, sodium, and added sugars.

The rule limits cereals, for instance, to not more than 2.5 grams of sugar per serving as a way to be labeled as wholesome — a restriction meals producers declare would exclude over 95 p.c of ready-to-eat cereals in the marketplace.

In response, processed meals firms that produce quite a lot of snacks, baked items, pastas, and frozen pizzas are difficult the principles earlier than they’re finalized by the company. Among the many most vocal meals firms are producers of high-sugar cereals, that are largely marketed to kids and have been criticized as a driver of the weight problems epidemic in America.

In a joint filing made final month, the biggest cereal producers within the nation — Normal Mills, Kellogg’s, and Submit Shopper Manufacturers — decried the proposed dietary standards and threatened to file a lawsuit, difficult the rules as a violation of company free speech rights…”

Learn extra: Fruity Pebbles and Fortunate Charms Threaten to Block “Wholesome” Meals Labeling Pointers in Courtroom

From the Natural and Non-GMO Report:

“Because the European Union is making ready to resolve on whether or not and the best way to decontrol new GMOs, Sluggish Meals seems to be on the most frequent claims made by the biotechnology and seed business to advertise new GMOs and their deregulation. Spoiler: they’re deceptive, if not misleading.

Fantasy #1: Modifications introduced by new GM strategies (or “genome modifying”) to change vegetation are the identical as what might occur in nature or with typical breeding.

Fantasy #2: New GMOs will assist cut back the usage of pesticides, together with herbicides.

Fantasy #3: We want new GMOs to feed our ever-growing inhabitants.

Fantasy #4: New GM strategies make exact and managed modifications to the DNA, with predictable outcomes.

Fantasy #5: New GMOs are very important to adapt agriculture to local weather change.

The article concludes: “We don’t want extra GM supposedly ‘climate-ready-crops’, we want climate-ready agroecological methods based on confirmed strategies, which additionally guarantee farmers’ sovereignty free from patents. This requires choosing the proper crops for the best location and circumstances, planting a range of crops, and constructing wholesome soils that retain moisture in dry circumstances and forestall flooding in moist circumstances.”

Be taught extra: Busting the Myths on New GMOs

Signal OCA’s petition to Ban GMOs

Our allies at GMO Science write:

“The biotech Business is now selling meals components and proteins produced by genetically engineered yeast, algae and micro organism to secrete one thing designed to imitate a pure compound or substance usually produced by vegetation or animals. Regardless of promoting claims that such substances are “equivalent” to cow’s milk, beef protein or plant molecules, the substances created are distinctive and totally different from the pure proteins and compounds they mimic. This new meals know-how is controversial, nearly unregulated and minimally assessed for damaging well being impacts. The substances which might be derived from genetically engineered organisms haven’t undergone peer reviewed security testing previous to being dropped at market and primary issues like allergenicity stay a distinguished threat. The long-term well being results of consuming these genetically engineered proteins are unknown. The environmental impacts from contamination attributable to the discharge of those organisms into air and water is irreversible and dangerous…

Along with the dearth of public well being research about these components, there may be additionally an absence of labeling of components derived from genetic engineering, making it virtually unattainable for firms and shoppers to keep away from them… This has allowed firms utilizing these new genetically engineered proteins, flavors and fragrances to make ‘Pure’ and ‘Bio-Similar’ claims, and but they’re patented as distinctive. Generally they seem on labels as ‘fermentation merchandise’ and different phrases which might be deceptive at finest.

These GMO 2.0 components don’t belong at a pure and natural commerce present. Together with these merchandise at Pure Merchandise Expo undermines, degrades and damages the Pure and Natural business as a complete and indicators their acceptance as equal to pure meals, which they aren’t. To permit these components on the present ground is to offer them credibility whereas they do extreme injury to the credibility of our business.”

Learn the article and ship your petition to Expo West: Request That New Hope Prohibit Meals Merchandise Containing Elements Produced by Genetically Engineered Microorganisms at Pure Merchandise Expo

As I stated in my presentation on the “World Assaults on Meals & Organics,” OCA, RI, and Hudson Carbon are pledged to assist the world’s 60 million natural or close to natural, however not but licensed, small and household farmers to get licensed after which obtain a good value for his or her merchandise. However in the long term a good market value for natural merchandise just isn’t sufficient. If shelf costs for natural merchandise rise too excessive, center and low-income shoppers will discover it laborious to afford them. Many of the income in natural meals go to the middle-men, the large manufacturers, grocery store chains, and Amazon.

We’re already beginning to see a slowdown in natural progress within the market. We have to press governments to cease subsidizing company agribusiness, manufacturing unit farms, GMOs, and poisonous fertilizers and pesticides (at the moment at $700 billion in authorities subsidies worldwide) and as an alternative pay a premium to natural producers, not only for the meals and fiber they produce, however for the environmental and socio-economic advantages they ship. These environmental and social providers embrace rising soil fertility, sequestering carbon (above floor and beneath floor), rebuilding watersheds, rising soil rainfall retention, increasing biodiversity, eliminating poverty. However to hold out this long-term mission we want your assist.

Thanks in your help in 2022, and your donations within the first two months of this yr.

However proper now we actually want your assist. So please make a donation at this time.

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Congressional Payments Name for Research on Seaweed Farming and Funding for Tribal Begin-Ups 

Funding in Small & Future Farmers: An Important Step 

Natural Meals Costs Surge as Inflation Continues 

Kim Iversen: Elites Ignore Will of the Individuals: Billions Extra for Ukraine 

Marianne Williamson: Why I’m Difficult Joe Biden

Payments Regulating Poisonous Chemical substances Appeal to Excessive-priced Lobbyists

López Obrador’s value assure program failing Mexico’s small-scale farmers 

Scott Ritter’s Pressing Recommendation to the Ukrainian Individuals