Alerts
- Help Remove Pro-Pesticide Provision in Farm Bill (4/9/08) Ask your Senators and Representative to stand up for the protection of health and the environment by joining with their colleagues in Congress by calling conferees to stop a pro-pesticide provision in the Farm Bill.
- Ask the Today Show To Give Equal Time to Organics (12/05/06) NBC's Today Show ran a piece recently that paints organic food as unsafe, leaving the impression that conventional chemically grown food is better. Ask the Today Show to get the facts right.
- Save Organic: Sign Letter to Organic Industry. Despite massive efforts by thousands (over 320,000!) of organic farmers, consumers, industries, and activists, the OTA Amendment to the Organic Foods Production Act passed in a closed-door, Leadership-only Agriculture-Appropriations Conference Committee on Friday, October 28, 2005.
- Organic Standards Under Sneak Attack Today! Vote at 4:00 pm. (10/25/05) Today Congress will consider an amendment to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill sponsored by the Organic Trade Association (OTA) that would weaken the organic food law.
- Thanks and Keep the Pressure On! (9/20/05) Write Congress Before It’s Too Late. Say NO to Dangerous Organic Rider on Senate Appropriations Bill
- USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has extended, until June 25, 2004 the comment deadline on its proposal to exempt 100 percent organic producers from commodity promotion assessments. See "Agricultural Marketing Service" at www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a040426c.html. Comments may be submitted by e-mail to organicassessment@usda.gov.
- EPA solicits comments on Bt engineered cotton; Public Comments Due 11/14/03 (November 2003)
- All Things OrganicTM Trade Show 2004. 310 booths already reserved (October 2003)
- USDA seeks NOSB staff director. Listed as Advisory Board Specialist (October 2003)
- Thank You Members and Friends: Organic Integrity Upheld (April 2003)
- Appropriations Bill Rider Weakens Organic Livestock Standards (February 2003)
- Groups Take Legal Action to Protect Integrity of the National Organic Standards (October 2002)
- What does the USDA Organic Seal mean for you? A National Organic Standards Factsheeet (October 2002)
- USDA Announces New National Organic Standards (December 2000)
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