Dear Supporter,

What a year.

Like you — and millions of others — I couldn’t have imagined last year this time what the next few months would bring … much less how the next 12 months would unfold.

But here we are.

As I write to you today, it’s crystal clear that our work is more urgent than at any time in the history of this organization … and your role as a supporter is more critical than ever.

If you’re one of the millions of people whose lives have been turned upside down by COVID-19 — if you’ve lost a loved one, or lost your livelihood, or fear that your right to health and wellbeing are under siege—know that the entire OCA team is rooting for you.

Also know that we’re working for you.

In fact, we’re working harder than ever to expose and fight back against the corruption — in our food and healthcare systems, and in our political system — that has brought us to where we are today.

In my annual letter to supporters last year, I quoted the ancient poet, Virgil, who said: “The greatest wealth is health.”

Little did I know then how prophetic those words would be … now 12 months later, I can’t think of a better reminder.

I also can’t think of anything more worth fighting for than the right to healthy food, a healthy environment, and a healthy democracy. We need you in this fight.

Unfortunately, these rights are under attack as never before.

Yet as frightening as these attacks are, they also present new opportunities.

When COVID first exposed the fallacy of relying on a centralized, industrial food system — especially the industrial factory farm model — we used that system’s very public failure to educate consumers on the benefits of local and regional food production systems.

We wasted no time building a coalition and launching a Boycott Big Meat consumer and media education campaign.

The media took note. More consumers started looking to their local farmers for meat and produce.

Organic and regenerative farmers stepped up, As contracts with restaurants dried up, they adapted. They filled the gap created by Big Meat’s failure by selling direct to consumers and farmers markets.

And as more consumers started connecting the dots between healthy food, a healthy immune system, and the ability to fight off disease, sales of not just meat, but all local organic and regenerative food, soared.

We also took our Boycott Big Meat campaign to the courts. We filed lawsuits against Tyson and Smithfield … most recently, we went after Cargill with an FTC complaint.

OCA was always committed to ending industrial factory farming … COVID presented an opportunity to expand and accelerate that work.

Thanks to your support, we were able to seize that opportunity, and make the most of it.

If you follow us closely, you’ve noticed that our work also took an unexpected turn this year, as details about the pandemic — including its origin — came to light.

It is our belief that you, that all of us, have the right to know where this virus came from.

If, as many scientists believe, COVID-19 was genetically engineered in a lab, no one will be safe, much less healthy, until this type of senseless, diabolically dangerous “research” is shut down.

That’s why we’ve joined forces with other organizations, and with hundreds of scientists and lawyers, to demand the truth about COVID-19’s origins.

Together, we are pressuring world governments to shut down the hundreds of labs around the world — labs that could leak the next, potentially more dangerous virus.

To some, this seems like an unlikely campaign for OCA.

But we have always fought to end genetic engineering of food, or at the very least, the right to know if your food has been genetically engineered.

Now, we believe it’s critical to end the genetic engineering of viruses — before those viruses end us.

That doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned our work to fix the food and farming system. Far from it.

In a recent interview, financial advisor Catherine Austin-Fitts was asked what she recommends people invest in right now.

This highly successful, highly respected and financially savvy professional didn’t recommend stocks or bonds or Silicon Valley start-ups.

Instead, she took the interviewer by surprise: “Invest in organic food,” she said.

Why? Because health is wealth — and good health is impossible without good food.

As we look forward to a new — and we hope, better — year, please consider investing in OCA’s work to build a better food and farming system, and hold corporations—and Congress – accountable for any and all corruption.

We hope you’ll view a donation to OCA as a long-term investment in “your greatest wealth” — that is, your health.

If you make a tax-deductible donation between now and the end of December, the Mercola Health Foundation will match your gift. Please make a donation by midnight, December 31, to double your impact!

Wishing you a healthy, regenerative new year!

You make our work possible. Thank you.

In solidarity,