We have to get organized, and we have to help others build a mighty green
Regeneration movement. The time to begin is now. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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BLOG POST OF THE WEEKROADMAP TO REGENERATION

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While the global elite (Bill Gates, Silicon Valley, the World Economic Forum, et
al.) and the new corporate-indentured Biden Administration are calling for a
permanent pandemic-induced “Great Reset” that unfortunately seems to take the
technocratic surveillance state and economic ruthlessness of the Chinese
Communist Party as its example
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lockdown-on-demand and digital dictatorship in China in order to get ahead.

What we need instead is participatory democracy, constitutional freedom, human
rights, and Regeneration. We need a grassroots-powered, equitable Organic
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In case you haven’t read my book, Grassroots Rising (Chelsea Green Publishers
2020), here is Chapter Nine, which is called “Roadmap to Regeneration in the
United States 2020-2030.”

READ: Roadmap to Regeneration in the United States, 2020—2030
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Learn more about Chelsea Green’s Books—The Politics and Practice of
Sustainability

www.chelseagreen.com
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HERBICIDESVILSACK’S DICAMBA DISASTER

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Following up on “ Back to the Future with Tom ‘Mr. Monsanto’ Vilsack
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President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture.



If you haven’t already, please tell your U.S. Senators to vote NO on Vilsack.
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In our last post
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the U.S.D.A. and cloned animals that he allowed to enter the market without
review.

Today, we focus on Vilsack’s 2015 approval
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hellish herbicide drift incidents plaguing organic and conventional farmers
alike. But, it was Monsanto's biggest product launch ever, supposedly a fix for
the weed problems with Roundup Ready crops (resistant to glyphosate), so he
turned a blind eye to the danger.

Dicamba is diabolical. Since the dawn of industrial agriculture, there has never
been such an intense and prolonged period of crop losses due to pesticide
damage, as that wrought by Vilsack's 2015 rubber stamping of Monsanto's
dicamba-resistant GMOs.

READ: Vilsack's Dicamba Disaster: Reason #2 Senators Should Vote NO on Biden's
USDA Pick
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COVID-19LOCKDOWN IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

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Global media and news channels like Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN and India’s NDTV have
been marketing “Warp Speed” vaccines— although their efficacy including how long
their immunity lasts is not clear—to the world with images of Prime Ministers,
Vice President elects, and a Crown Prince in the Middle East taking the jab live
on television– seemingly to encourage vaccine skeptics. Vaccine nationalism is
growing with intense competition among Pharmaceutical Corporations and countries
that manufacture vaccines and their local partners.

However, the country-specific quantitative and qualitative data now available
for many hot and humid tropical South East Asian and African countries for the
year 2020, indicate that there is NO Covid-19 emergency in a vast majority of
countries in the Global South, and hence little need to rush to buy vaccines.

READ: If Covid-19 is Primarily a ‘First World’ Virus, Why is the Global South in
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REGENERATIONDOES THE REGENERATION MOVEMENT HAVE A GLOBAL SOUTH PROBLEM?

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In the last issue of Organic Bytes, we published an important article called “ Does the Regeneration Movement Have a Race Problem?
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and Regenerative Movement.

Today we’d like to call attention to the often overlooked fact that the three
billion farmers and villagers of the Global South (especially Latin America,
Africa, and Asia) are likely our best hope, not only for feeding most of the
world, but for regenerating billions of acres of farmland, pasture, rangeland,
and forests, sequestering billions of tons of excess carbon, both in soils and
above ground, and reversing climate change.

In the last several issues of Bytes we have called attention to the incredible potential
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agroforestry system to sequester carbon, produce large amounts of fermented
animal forage, and eliminate rural poverty. But throughout the Global South, not
just in Mexico and other arid and semi-arid lands, there are agroforestry,
reforestation, holistic livestock management, and ecosystem restoration
practices with tremendous potential for reversing climate change, restoring
biodiversity, and eliminating rural poverty.

For more on organic and regenerative practices in the Global South subscribe to
our Regeneration International newsletter
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For more on the Global South’s potential for Regeneration, see Eric Toensmeier’s
book The Carbon Farming Solution
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Here’s a chart by Toensmeier
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biodiversity, and traditional and indigenous practices in the Global South give
these regions an important advantage over the Northern Hemisphere in terms of
carbon sequestration and regeneration capacity.


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VIRTUAL CONFERENCEGROWING STRONGER

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This year, our partners at MOSES [[link removed]] (Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service) are taking their well-known
annual conference in a creative new direction.

They’re joining forces with four other organizations to put on a virtual
conference called Growing Stronger
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online conference will take place on February 22-27, 2021.

The organizations co-hosting the conference along with MOSES are GrassWorks
Grazing Conference, OGRAIN Organic Grain Conference, Midwest Organic Pork
Conference, and Organic Vegetable Production Conference.

If you’d like to join the community of farmers, gardeners, regenerative leaders,
consumers, and change-makers attending this conference, you can learn more and
register here
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knowledge for you—no matter where you’re at in your journey of learning about
organic agriculture.

Don’t miss the roundtable discussion by Ronnie Cummins, OCA’s International
Director, about agave agroforestry systems and their potential for large-scale
landscape regeneration. He’ll be joined by André Leu, International Director of
Regeneration International.

On January 21, 2021 at 1:00 pm CST, conference organizer Tom Manley will have a
livestream discussion with OCA Political Director Alexis Baden-Mayer about what
the 2021 conference has to offer and how you can participate.

We hope to see you online!

WATCH the livestream or recording here
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REGISTER here
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WATCH the past 2020 conference keynote by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm,
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Will we ever get back to normal?

With COVID-19 continuing to dominate our lives and unprecedented turmoil in
Washington DC, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when we felt “normal.”

The pandemic and often misguided government response has challenged every aspect
of modern society. It has also exposed strategic vulnerabilities in our society,
especially in our food and health system.

The old normal may feel familiar and comfortable but it’s not working. It’s
built on a foundation of corporate control, toxic agribusinesses, corrupt power
hierarchies, “food” that barely qualifies as food, poisoned environments and the
loss of biodiversity.

Political powers and economic powers have already begun to co-opt the "we need
to change" message to further their own ends.

They seek to redefine "nature," “agriculture" and “health” to suit a
corporate/technocratic vision that promotes greater industrialization,
artificial intelligence and Big Data and puts technologies like genetic
engineering at the heart of a “Great Reset” that it pretends will be equitable
and sustainable.

Haven’t we all had enough of that?

For OCA, this tragic and polarized era has brought clarity and a renewed sense
of purpose. We are redoubling our efforts to build a new and better normal for
everyone.

Your donations, to either Organic Consumers Association or Citizens Regeneration
Lobby, will help us succeed.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit
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Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not
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Donate $100 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Ronnie’s new book
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FARMINGAMERICA’S BIGGEST OWNER OF FARMLAND: BILL GATES

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Bill Gates, enthusiastic supporter of a Great Reset and the fourth richest
person in the world, known for his computer programming skills rather than his
love of the outdoors, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland
across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America.

READ: America's Biggest Owner Of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
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Mexico Mulls Use of GMO Corn in Feed
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Democrats Claim Censorship Necessary To Stop ‘Fascism’, But They Still Serve
Militarism and Corporatism
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The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Goes Mainstream
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Are Some Animal Welfare Labels ‘Humanewashing’?
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Astonishing COVID-19 Testing Fraud Revealed
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The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America
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Pandemic Sparks Call for End to Big Ag’s Control of Seeds and Food System
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