Organic Activists (page31)

Organic clients and activist allies of Fenton Communications bundled their PR spin on the pages of the Chicago Tribune in an article claiming organic food sales are “growing at record…

Example #1: The Organic Consumers Association’s Ronnie Cummins attempts to rally the anti-choice troops with “food politics” issues. Cummins asks his minions to be sure and buy organic (Could…

Fenton Communications' Mothers & Others (who brought us the 1989 Alar-on-apples scare) outlines plans on how to get schools to forego conventional foods and "go organic." Notice the involvement of Chefs Collaborative board member Ann Cooper in such efforts. The Chefs are already working on this anti-choice angle with their "Adopt a school program."

Despite repeated activist (and organic industry) claims to the contrary, consumers of organic food are wasting their money if they think they’re buying something which is safer or more…

Greenpeace is renewing its campaign to get local and state ordinances passed that promote organic and disparage genetically improved foods. Minneapolis, Boulder, Boston, and Austin have already fallen under the spell of these anti-choice activists.

Organic marketer Real Food Company is hosting a rally “to demand accountability from biotechnology companies” by requiring labels for all genetically improved foods. The featured speaker is none other than…

The activists and organic food producers behind the fear mongering Keep Nature Natural Campaign make no bones about it: they want people to shop at their stores so they can fund an anti-genetically improved food campaign.

Minneapolis City Council Member Jim Niland, on behest of anti-choice activists from the Organic Consumers Association, is sponsoring a resolution directing the city to give preferences to organic food vendors, to encourage the Minneapolis School Board to do the same, and to urge the federal government to label genetically improved foods. The resolution follows on the heels of a similar proposal in San Francisco.

Much like the Natural Law Party's John Fagan rants against genetically improved foods to drive business to his food testing company, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, of the anti-meat Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and friends warn of the supposed dangers of dioxin in food (especially in meat) to drive business to Campbell's dioxin testing company.

Isn’t it interesting that the people who brought you the thoroughly debunked Alar scare in 1989 are the same ones who are now attacking ABC reporter John Stossel for his…