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"The Organic Consumers Association is a public interest organization dedicated to building a healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and consumption. We are a global clearinghouse for information and grassroots technical assistance."
The Organic Consumers Association [OCA] The OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on representing the views and interests of the nation`s estimated ten million organic consumers.
The OCA represents over 600,000 members, subscribers and volunteers and hundreds of companies in the natural marketplace. Our US and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
The Organic Consumers Association was formed in 1998 in the wake of the mass backlash by organic consumers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture`s controversial proposed national regulations for organic food. Through the OCA`s SOS [Save Organic Standards] Campaign, as well as the work of our allies in other organizations, the organic community was able to mobilize 280,000 consumers to send in letters and emails to the USDA. In this project the OCA worked in cooperation with hundreds of natural food stores, consumer co-ops, Community Supported Agriculture groups, and farmers markets, as well as thousands of individual volunteers across the country--a relationship which has continued through the present time.
Our political program is the Food Agenda 2000-2010: a three point platform calling for
- a global moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops;
- a phase-out of the most dangerous industrial agriculture and factory farming practices; and
- the conversion of American agriculture to at least 30% organic by the year 2010.
Our web site, research, and media team are considered by reporters and radio talk show hosts to be among some of the nation`s top experts on food safety and organic food [see OCA`s press center here]. Our media team provides background information, interviews, and story ideas to TV and radio producers and journalists on a daily basis--from national TV networks to the alternative press.
The Organic Consumers Association [OCA] The OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on representing the views and interests of the nation`s estimated ten million organic consumers.
The OCA represents over 600,000 members, subscribers and volunteers and hundreds of companies in the natural marketplace. Our US and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community.
The Organic Consumers Association was formed in 1998 in the wake of the mass backlash by organic consumers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture`s controversial proposed national regulations for organic food. Through the OCA`s SOS [Save Organic Standards] Campaign, as well as the work of our allies in other organizations, the organic community was able to mobilize 280,000 consumers to send in letters and emails to the USDA. In this project the OCA worked in cooperation with hundreds of natural food stores, consumer co-ops, Community Supported Agriculture groups, and farmers markets, as well as thousands of individual volunteers across the country--a relationship which has continued through the present time.
Our political program is the Food Agenda 2000-2010: a three point platform calling for
- a global moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops;
- a phase-out of the most dangerous industrial agriculture and factory farming practices; and
- the conversion of American agriculture to at least 30% organic by the year 2010.
Our web site, research, and media team are considered by reporters and radio talk show hosts to be among some of the nation`s top experts on food safety and organic food [see OCA`s press center here]. Our media team provides background information, interviews, and story ideas to TV and radio producers and journalists on a daily basis--from national TV networks to the alternative press.
