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GUEST: Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association

Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture announced its new appointments to the National Organic Standards Board. Alarming food-safety activists, all of the new appointees have industry ties to companies such as Campbell Soup and General Mills. Three of the four positions appointed by the USDA include seats reserved for diverse representatives in the scientific, environmentalist and consumer and public interest fields. The National Organic Standards Board, among other things, advises the USDA on federal organic laws and national organic standards. In response to the controversial appointments, the Organic Consumers Association is mobilizing its national grassroots network to call on companies such as General Mills in order to pressure the new appointees into declining their positions. The OCA is also hoping to pressure Congress to hold Congressional hearings and intervene.

For more information, visit www.organicconsumers.org.

OCA’s Action Alert can be found here:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/
organizationsORG/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6204