January 15, 2010
Important Alert: Haiti
How the Agricultural Policy of the United States has impoverished Haiti - How you can provide assistance in this earthquake.
Haiti, hit in January 1912 by a devastating earthquake, is the poorest country in the hemisphere.
The first priority is to help Haiti. Please donate. Organic Consumers Association recommended Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (Emergency Fund for Haiti) that is focusing its resources on helping organizations in Haiti bases, including those engaged in sustainable agriculture projects, survival and reconstruction. (Users of facebook: donate to causes and disseminate).
But it is also important to understand why Haiti is so poor, and that poverty is not accidental, if not the result of the actions of the United States government, including supporting violent coups and complicity in the trade and the lending policies that have destroyed civil society, have crushed the democracy and economy Haiti making a food exporter to a food importing country, a country where few have money to eat. Democracy Now has covered the effects of U.S. actions in Haiti for more than a decade.
Learn more about the disaster here , the history of U.S. involvement in Haiti, and how to donate to help victims.
Toxins in the so-called "organic" produce Health and Beauty
Do you wear Jason Pure, Natural & Organic, Avalon Organics, Kiss My Face Obsessively Organic, Nature's Gate Organics, Stella McCartney 100% Organic, Giovanni Organic, Head Organics, Eminence Organic, Physicians Formula Organic Wear, Good Stuff Organics, Desert Essence Organics, or any other "organic cosmetics" certified by Ecocert?
We regret to announce, but these personal care products called "organic" are not really organic and even contain dangerous ingredients that should never be allowed in products certified to the Organic Standards of the Department of Agriculture (USDA acronym in English)
Yesterday, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA acronym in English), along with other companies if they offer brands of personal care products certified organic Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Intelligent Nutrients, and Organic Essence, have made a complaint with the Program National Organic (NOP acronym in English) of the USDA, asking them to investigate the blatant practice of false labeling of organic call those other brands in violation of the USDA NOP regulations.
The complaint has been made in favor of the approximately 50 million regular consumers of organic products, arguing that products such as liquid soaps, bath, facial cleansers, shampoos, conditioners, lotions, moisturizers, lip balm, makeup and other cosmetics produced by 12 different corporations, have been propagated, labeled and marketed as "organic" or "organic" when in fact they are not as common as a means organic consumer interested in the environment.
In addition to this complaint, the Campaign for Cleaning the OCA has launched a boycott of cosmetics that claim to be organic, but that are not certified to the standards required by law.
We are urging our members to switch to use body care products certified organic by the USDA, as part of the resolution of this New Year, to be "more organic" in 2010.
Switching to organic health and beauty is very easy and comfortable. A simple scheme requires personal care shaving with a razor shikakai organic gelatin, washed the body and hair with organic soap, followed by organic hair rinse, and then use a deodorant based organic baking soda and finally wetted with an organic lotion or salve made from vegetable oils.
In our page body care products, we have listed 26 different brands of health and beauty where each of their products are certified under the USDA organic standards.
We need your help so that the USDA take action based on our legal complaint. Please write to the USDA today.
We are also collecting stories from consumers who have been deceived by these false health care companies and beauty. Have you been deceived?, Please share your story with us.
Orgánic0 Power 2010: Taking Action Locally
Local Strategic Campaign of the Week: # 4 - Trying Organic, Fair Trade and Trade Unions
We need to divert the government's purchases of maquiladoras to the organic, fair trade and labor unions. Local governments can lead by ensuring that contracts for products or services give priority to organic, fair trade and made by unions.
10 Local Reasons to Work in 2010
Preview: Next Week's Special Edition Monsanto
Nomination Senator Defers Pesticide Pro-Obama, Siddiqui:
Islam Siddiqui, nominated by President Obama to be the Chief Negotiator for Agriculture and Trade Representative of the United States, is currently the Vice-President of CropLife America, the notorious group that promotes and represents the genetic engineering companies, including six multinational corporations that control 75% of the global agro-chemicals: Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow and DuPont.
Nearly 9,000 members of OCA have told the Justice Department to end the monopoly of Monsanto:
After many years of complaints from the Organic Consumers Association and its allies, the Justice Department is investigating how large corporations and food biotechnology, including Monsanto, are monopolizing and controlling our seeds, food and agriculture.
Pro-Monsanto Rajiv Shah Confirmed as Director of USAID:
"Hillary Clinton Secretary of State express too many compliments and relief before the swearing-Shah."
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