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ESSAY OF THE WEEKLOCAVORES UNITE!

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Consumers deserve credit for driving the growth in local and organic
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But if we’re serious about growth on the scale we need if we want to revitalize
our rural communities—and realize the potential of organic regenerative
agriculture to address climate change—it won’t be enough to just buy local.

We’ll have to become more than local food consumers . We’ll have to become local food citizens .

Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer, rural development consultant and author,
started a CSA in the mid-1990s. We asked him to outline some of the progress and
challenges involved in building strong local and regional food systems.

Flaccavento says we’ve come a long way. But we still have a long way to go.

To get there, we’ll need what the Green New Deal
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sustainable farming and regional food systems, while breaking the stranglehold
of Big Ag monopolies
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Read ‘Progress from the Bottom Up: How Farmers, Consumers and Value Chains Put
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SIGN THE PETITION: Consumers Want a Green New Deal
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ACTION ALERT'SUPER' BAD NEWS

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On average, someone in the United States gets an antibiotic-resistant infection
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That’s according to a new report
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previously thought.

According to the Post, while antibiotic resistance is particularly deadly for
patients in hospitals and nursing homes and those with weak immune systems, it’s
now also threatening people undergoing common surgeries and therapies, such as
knee replacements and cancer treatments.

Why are antibiotics becoming less and less effective? Because their overuse
causes bacteria to evolve into “superbugs” capable of resisting them. Doctors
share some of the blame, for over-prescribing antibiotics.

But the other leading cause of antibiotic resistance is the overuse of
antibiotics in industrial factory farming.

To fatten up animals faster, and to keep them “healthy” in crowded, filthy
environments, factory farm animals are routinely fed antibiotics—including some
that are critical for treating humans.

What can you do? Boycott all industrial meat products. And help us pressure
Congress to end the routine use of antibiotics in industrial meat production.

Read ‘Deadly Superbugs Pose Greater Threat Than Previously Estimated’
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Healthy Farm Animals Shouldn’t Get Antibiotics that
Sick People Need!
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ACTION ALERTFLEECED MUCH?

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Ever search for “CBD” on Amazon.com? If you’ve bought any of the products that
come up, including the site’s “Best Seller,” it’s likely you’ve been fleeced.

According to Amazon.com’s drug and paraphernalia policy, “Items containing
CBD/cannabinoid or full spectrum hemp oil, including topical products, are
prohibited from listing or sale on Amazon.”

And yet, when you search “CBD” on Amazon.com, this policy doesn’t come up—but
dozens of products do.

When the Organic & Natural Health Association tested
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contained CBD.

Where CBD oil comes from and how it was produced
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Until Amazon cleans up its act, dietary supplement purchases are just too
important to leave to the reckless online retailer.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Amazon to stop selling fake CBD oil!
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SUPPORT OCA & CRL'KNOWLEDGE GAPS'
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This week, the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Johns Hopkins
Center for a Livable Future (CLF) issued a joint statement calling for a
“precautionary” moratorium on CAFOs, also known as factory farms.

The groups pointed to an “array of negative health impacts, including
respiratory disease, mental health problems, and certain types of infections,
and said that “government oversight and policies designed to safeguard the
health of individuals and the environment from these operations have been
inadequate.”

The statement came during the same week that the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention warned that the antibiotic-resistance crisis—a crisis linked to the
overuse of antibiotics in industrial meat production—is much worse than
previously thought.

In a press release, the director of CLF’s Food Production and Public Health
Program said this:

“It’s critical that we work diligently and swiftly to close the knowledge gaps
related to the public health and environmental challenges associated with this
method of food animal production.”

Much of our work is about closing the “knowledge gaps.” All of the
communications we put out, the lawsuits we file, the policies we advocate for,
the campaigns we launch—it all has to do with providing you, the consumer, the
information you need so you can make informed choices about the food you eat.

Exposing the health and environmental consequences of supporting a degenerative
industrial food and farming system is a big part of our job. The same goes for
shining a light on the multiple benefits of an organic regenerative food system.

Our work, and its impact, isn’t always easy to quantify. It isn’t always sexy.

But it’s critical. As is our need for your continued financial support. As we
approach year’s end, we are facing a budget shortfall. Please consider making a
donation today. Thank you.

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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VIDEO OF THE WEEK'CHANGE IS HARD'
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Soon after the launch
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The NowThis news team traveled to the midwest to meet with farmers who are
dealing with the direct impact of global warming—including unprecedented
flooding—and who believe that with the right policy changes, they can not only
recover, but they can lead us back from the brink of climate disaster.

If our policymakers and investors give them the tools, these farmers can build
healthy soil that stores carbon and produces nutrient-rich food, while also
improving their own economic prospects.

Yet so far, despite promises from both the Obama and Trump administrations, the
policy changes family farmers need haven’t materialized.

The farmers interviewed for this video hope a Green New Deal
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demand their rightful seats at the policymaking table.

Watch 'Meet the Farmers Facing the Climate Crisis
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Learn more about the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal
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TAKE ACTION: Support the national coalition of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers for a
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ECO-TRAVELRESTORATIVE TRAVEL

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Eco-restoration is “the great work of our time.”

That’s what one of the participants in last year’s land-restoration camp said
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What’s an “ecorestoration camp?” The best explanation is here, in this video
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Want to participate?

Join Vía Orgánica and the Ecosystem Restoration Camp Movement in Mexico,
February 21 - March 1, 2020, at the land-restoration camp at Vía Orgánica Ranch [[link removed]] .

Volunteer to camp, work, study, connect with the earth and meet new friends in
this beautiful ranch near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Camp activities will
include restoration work such as tree planting, composting, seed collecting,
earthworks, cooking, listening to music, campfires, making new friends and much
more.

Ecosystem restoration is a growing global strategy to naturally draw down and
sequester carbon from the atmosphere and store it in our soils, forests and
vegetation to reverse global warming.

Learn more and sign up
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Watch this beautiful video filmed on site at the last Vía Orgánica Ecosystem
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Questions? Email [email protected]
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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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Controlled Trial Study Shows Healthy Foods Reduce Depression
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Presidential Candidates Wouldn’t Touch This Radical Idea to Transform
Agriculture Until Now
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A Vegan Man Claims Burger King Cooked Impossible Whopper Alongside Meat
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Are Ben & Jerry’s Cows Actually Happy? That Question May Be Settled in Court
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Dentists Are Breaking Toxic Mercury Laws
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Low Magnesium Linked to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
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