Organicconsumers.org Website Review

thank you for helping us reach our year-end fundraising goal. donate before january 1, and your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar.. campaigning for health, justice, sustainability, peace, and democracy. take action tell bayer ceo werner baumann: think roundup lawsuits are a ‘nuisance?’ imagine how cancer victims feel! more than 9,000 lawsuits are now pending against monsanto, by people who allege that exposure to roundup weedkiller caused their cancer.  most of the people behind these lawsuits have stories not unlike the one told by dewayne johnson, during his landmark jury trial. like johnson, many of these people have non-hodgkin lymphoma—or they have family members who have already died from the disease.  to monsanto’s victims, these trials are a way to hold monsanto accountable for its crimes. but to werner baumann, ceo of bayer (which acquired monsanto last year for $63 billion), these lawsuits are just “nuisances.” . take action: tell bayer ceo werner baumann: think roundup lawsuits are a ‘nuisance?’ imagine how cancer victims feel. sewage sludge: the u.s. environmental protection agency (epa) euphemistically calls it “biosolids.” but what is it really? and. .. whatever goes into the sewer system and emerges as solids from municipal wastewater treatment plants. sludge can be (its exact composition varies and is not knowable) any of the 80,000 synthetic chemicals used by industry; new chemicals created from combining two or more of those 80,000; bacteria and viruses; hospital waste; runoff from roads; pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter drugs; detergents and chemicals that are put down drains in residences; and, of course, urine and feces flushed down toilets.  this toxic stew is sold to fa*mers who use it to fertilize food crops—a fact most consumers don’t know, because food producers and. take action: ask your member of congress to cosponsor the sewage sludge in food production consumer notification act. the winter of 1997-98, hunkered down in our small cabin in northern minnesota, our then-tiny staff waged its first big battle against big