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{{#Show badges: | ToxicSludge}}'''Organic Consumers Association''' (OCA) is a public interest organization in the United States representing the interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_purchasing socially responsible consumers]. The OCA deals with food safety, industrial agriculture, [[genetic engineering]], children's health, corporate accountability, [[Fair trade|Fair Trade]], and environmental sustainability. "The OCA represents over 850,000 members, subscribers and volunteers, including several thousand businesses in the natural foods and organic marketplace."<ref name="about">[http://www.organicconsumers.org/aboutus.cfm "About the OCA: Who We Are and What We're Doing"], accessed November 2010.</ref>
Organic Consumers Association is a member of the [[Business Ethics Network]] and profiled in the [[WiserEarth]] database at: [http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/fbe920c60c411a55ee5af3f3253b31d0]
It is a member of the [[Health Liberty]] coalition.
In 2010,"Organic Consumers Association (OCA) launches Fair World Project, the first fair trade consumer organization, to promote and protect the integrity of the fair trade movement." <ref>[http://fairworldproject.org/index.php?c=intro&m=history History], Fair World Project, accessed January 18, 2011.</ref>
The OCA was the lead organization in 2009 and early 2010 in confronting and exposing the collusion between the [[SFPUC]] and [[Alice Waters]] and [[Francesca Vietor]] work with the [[Chez Panisse Foundation]].
The [[Food Rights Network]] released a major investigative report on July 9, 2010 titled: '''[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters]'''. <ref>John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the [[Sewage Sludge]] Industry Bedded Alice Waters], PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010</ref> It examines the conflicts of interest and collusion between the Chez Panisse Foundation and the SFPUC based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: [[SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline]].)
==Background==
The Organic Consumers Association has an online buying guide that helps people find green products and services near by, depending on zip code. They also link to other buying guides, for example for Fair Trade food or for non-corporate, local independent businesses.<ref>[http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/BuyingGuide.cfm Buying guide], Organic Consumers Association, accessed November 2010.</ref>
==Personneland Advisers==
Accessed November 2010, includes:<ref name="about"/>
*[[Ronnie Cummins]], National Director
Fax: 218-353-7652<br>
Web: http://www.organicconsumers.org
==Criticism==
*Steven Novella, "[http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/bt-and-leukemia-another-anti-gmo-myth/ Bt and Leukemia – Another Anti-GMO Myth]", ''Neurologicablog'', August 28, 2014.
==Resources==
*[[National Organic Program Regulations]]
*[[processed food industry]]
* [[sewage sludge]]
*[[SFPUC]]
*[[USDA ORGANIC]]
*[[Coalition for Health Freedom]]
*[[Alexis Baden-Mayer]], political director of the Organic Consumers Association
===References===
[[category:Agriculture]][[Category:Business Ethics Network]]
[[Category:Environment]][[category:food]][[category:Non-Government Organizations]][[category:United States]]
[[Category:Sustainable Agriculture]][[category:Sustainable Agriculture Organizations]]