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President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is not the end of our work—it’s just the
beginning.



We invite you to join us for an exclusive webinar that asks a vitally important
first question: Isn’t it about time a real organic regenerative farmer took the helm in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)?

We can't create change by blindly following the same old corporate, Big Ag
business-as-usual path.

Radically changing our food and farming system for the better will be possible
only if we have a champion of organic and regenerative agriculture leading the
USDA.

President-elect Biden’s current top pick for Secretary of Agriculture is
reported to be Heidi Heitkamp
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agribusiness.

We believe he can, and must, do better. That’s why we’ve put together a panel of experts ready to discuss the best (and
worst) potential candidates for Secretary of Agriculture—and how you can get
involved.

You’ll hear from:

• John Boyd , founder and president of National Black Farmers Association
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cabinet

• Joe Maxwell , co-founder of Family Farm Action Alliance
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• Dr. Francis Thicke , regenerative dairy farmer
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• Chloë Waterman , program manager for Friends of the Earth’s Climate-Friendly Food Purchasing Program
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Join us Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. CST for a 1-hour panel discussion
titled: “We Need a Secretary of Agriculture Who Supports Organic Regenerative
Agriculture!”

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COVID-19TRANSPARENCY

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U.S. Right To Know (USRTK) has filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). Its aim is to uncover what is known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the risks of
biosafety labs and gain-of-function research.



Given the devastation it has wrought over the course of 2020—lives lost, jobs
lost, liberties lost—questioning the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may seem
indulgent. Surely it’s more important to figure out how we get out of this mess?

But understanding where it came from is important, because how the virus originated shapes how we respond to it, what measures our
governments and institutions take, where science directs its energy—and who we
feel able to trust.

We applaud the action, which aims to bring some clarity and transparency to the
COVID-19 discussion by seeking correspondence with or about organizations such
as the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, as well as the EcoHealth Alliance.

None of us ever want to go through this again and the bottom line is, as USRTK
executive director Gary Ruskin says, “ Preventing the next pandemic may depend crucially on understanding the origins
of the present one .”

On November, 19 at 11:30 a.m. CST, we will host a Facebook Live [[link removed]] interview with USRTK Staff Scientist Dr. Sainath Suryanarayanan to find out
more about the lawsuit and what it hopes to uncover and to answer your
questions. Please join us.

READ ‘U.S. Right to Know Sues NIH for Documents about Origins of SARS-CoV-2’
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Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

The World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” sees COVID-19 as an opportunity to make
a better world. But who gets to decide what “better” means?

The better world vision of the Great Reset is one designed by globalists and
regulated by unelected officials. It includes a plan to transform the global food and agricultural systems and the human diet
through genetically modified organisms, lab-made proteins and pharmaceuticals
and industrial chemicals.

Globalism as an ideal is losing ground everywhere as we begin to see the full
extent of the damage it has caused to our world. The Great Reset is really an attempt at a Great Comeback for the global
elite—at the very moment when we need to be focusing on the regional and local.

Make no mistake. From the soft authoritarianism of its name to the dizzying
array of neoliberal capitalist think tanks that are behind the project, to the
predictably reassuring public faces shilling for the initiative—among them
Prince Charles, Greta Thunberg— this is a plan that has the power to derail real progress towards
sustainability.

It’s time to press “pause” on this dangerous game.

READ ‘World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry,
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Polls show he's America's favorite doctor. In the official playbook of COVID-19, Anthony Fauci has been portrayed as a reassuring presence in a time of panic,
inspiring trust that he was unbiased, non-partisan and strictly scientific.

Democrats love him for the ease with which he made Donald Trump look bad.
Republicans are less enamored, with some pointing to the work of scientist Judy
Mikovits (Plague of Corruption), filmmaker Mikki Willis (Plandemic) and Dr.
Joseph Mercola which has been steadily chipping away at Fauci’s sacred cow
status.

But really, there’s no reason why the search for the truth about the origin of COVID-19
should be a political issue.

Fauci’s career at the NIAID goes back to 1968 and he has directed the nation’s
policies on infectious diseases as chief since 1984.

That long career path has given him plenty of scope to militarize infectious
disease research post-9/11, deny the evidence of the lab origins of COVID-19 and
the legacy of dangerous lab leaks from “contained” facilities —all of which undoubtedly increased the inevitability of a pandemic.

Under that grandfatherly guise, the latest addition to our Gain of Function Hall-of-Shame
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SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Genetic Engineering of Viruses! Shut Down All
Biowarfare Labs Now!
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international Open Letter: ‘ Why We Need a Global Moratorium on the Creation of
Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) Through Gain-of-Function Experiments ’
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In 1954 the revolutionary “nonstick” Teflon pan seemed like a household miracle.
Today we know that the perfluorinated chemicals that keep food from sticking to
the pan are toxic and cancer-causing.



It took more than 50 years to understand that this chemical revolution was
really a train wreck.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are called “forever chemicals”
because they don’t break down in the environment. Instead they stick around and
find their way into our air, soil and drinking water. They have been found in eggs, meat, milk, fish, fruits and vegetables. They are still deliberately added to things like personal care products,
pesticides, fast food packaging, paints and stain resistant products.

Scientists estimate that there is no corner of the globe free of PFAS pollution
and most humans carry these chemicals in their bodies.

Some manufacturers have begun to remove PFAS from their products but progress
has been all too slow.

We can’t clean up the mess until we stop manufacturing these toxic chemicals.

READ ‘PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ are Widespread and Threaten Human Health – Here’s
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For years now, pesticide industry giants have peddled their genetically
engineered technology kits: modified seeds and the herbicides that go with them . Communities on the frontlines of GM agriculture bear the brunt of this
dangerous system.



A new film, “Seed Keepers and Truth Tellers: From the Frontlines of GM
Agriculture,” gives a voice to these communities.

It explores the origins of genetically engineered seeds, their implications and how farmers, from Senegal to Iowa, and from the Philippines to Hawaii, are
fighting for food sovereignty.

This animated short film is a collaboration between PAN North America and
Hawai'i Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA), in partnership with PAN Asia
Pacific.

It premieres on Tuesday, November 17 with an online launch party and panel
discussion.

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There is a compelling argument that soil and regenerative agriculture are the keys to reversing climate change.

We believe that, and we believe that the increasing adoption of regenerative
principles is taking farming in the right direction. But we can’t be complacent.



For instance, a recent announcement of a global center for regenerative
agriculture in Canada sounded promising. But dig a little deeper.

The center is a project of the global agritech company Terramera “fusing science, nature and artificial intelligence to transform how food is
grown and the economics of agriculture” and “powered” by Microsoft Azure.

We have an important fight on our hands to scale up the adoption of regenerative
practices AND maintain the integrity of regenerative farming.

Stopping big agritech companies eroding the concept of regeneration, in the same
way they’ve eroded so much of the world’s soil, is a big part of our daily
mission.

Through your donations to either Organic Consumers Association or Citizens
Regeneration Lobby, you can be a part of that mission.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
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