Organic Consumers Association
{{#badges: ToxicSludge}}Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is the largest membership organization in the United States representing primarily the interests of those who purchase organic food. [1]
Organic Consumers Association is a member of the Business Ethics Network and profiled in the WiserEarth database at: [1]
OCA and Chez Sludge
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: Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters. [2] 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.)
Corporate Campaigns
OCA is currently targeting (among others): Wal-Mart; Monsanto; ADM, Cargill, Hershey's & Mars, Starbucks; Horizon Organic and Aurora Organic (boycott of factory farmed milk labeled as organic); and body care companies including Avalon, Jason's, Nature's Gate, and Aveda for falsely labeling their products as organic. [3]
Personnel
- Ronnie Cummins, National Director
Advisory Board
Resources
References
- ↑ "About the OCA: Who We Are and What We're Doing", accessed December 2007.
- ↑ John Stauber, Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters, PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010
- ↑ Website Accessed June 24, 2010.
Related SourceWatch Resources
- processed food industry
- USDA ORGANIC
- Food Rights Network
- OCA, Alice Waters, Exchange on Toxic Sewage Sludge, March, 2010
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