Regenerative rancher Will Harris wants the CEO of Impossible Foods to visit his
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ESSAY OF THE WEEKMONSANTO'S HIT LIST

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We’ve known since at least June that Monsanto
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politicians and scientists, including their opinions about pesticides and
genetic engineering.

But newly revealed court documents expose an even more calculated and sinister
plan—a 130-page plan involving 11 staff members plus high-powered public
relations firms—to “slime and slander”
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Among the targets of Monsanto’s hit list strategy is U.S. Right to Know
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for which OCA provides substantial funding. In an interview
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there’s still so much we don’t yet know about Monsanto’s strategy. The court
documents raise more questions than answers, he said.

What we do know, is that Monsanto’s strategy involved recruiting, and sometimes
paying, third-party “experts” to attack USRTK’s and others’ work.

OCA is no stranger to Monsanto’s slimy tactics. The company has funded
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more than a corporate-funded front group. The ACSH has accused
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Give us a break.

Read 'Monsanto's Hit List Exposed'
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Make a tax-deductible donation to OCA’s Millions Against Monsanto campaign
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ACTION ALERTYOU'RE INVITED!

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It may be true that you can take the boy out of the country, but it’s apparently
not so easy to get the CEO out of Silicon Valley.

In mid-June, Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures,
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Georgia. The invitation was prompted by a statement Harris got wind of, in the
latest Impossible Foods Impact Report, which facetiously referred to regenerative
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The company has also claimed that grassfed beef “generates more GHGs than
feedlot beef”—a claim that didn’t sit well with Harris, whose ranch in Bluffton,
Georgia, stores “more carbon in the soil than our cows emit in a lifetime,”
according this blog post
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Harris told
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think there were many mistruths in that attack,” he said.

Then he reiterated his invitation to Brown, through the reporter:

“Dr. Brown, please come see me. It’ll be an opportunity for both of us to adjust
our worldviews.”

Harris followed up his public plea with a personal email to Brown. A company
official responded by scheduling a phone call, that she canceled two days
before. Brown also responded, with an apology—you can read more about the email
exchange and the ongoing debate ,
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Meanwhile, please help us get Brown "down on the farm" by following the
instructions below.



Read 'Dear Mr. Impossible Foods CEO: Please Visit This Regenerative Ranch'
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TAKE ACTION: Download and print this invitation
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Mr. Pat Brown, CEO, Impossible Foods
400 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063


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ACTION ALERTDEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 3

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The GMO Impossible Burger is so packed with poisons, that if eating it makes you
sick, you’ll never be able to figure out which ingredient to blame.

Mercola.com reports
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potentially be GMO and/or contaminated with glyphosate:

"… Soy Protein Concentrate … Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors … Potato Protein,
Methylcellulose (possibly from cotton), Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food
Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin … Soy Protein Isolate, Mixed Tocopherols
(Vitamin E) … Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C),
Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin
B12."

Impossible Foods, the Silicon Valley-based maker of the Impossible Burger,
admits that consumers could experience adverse reactions to its lab-grown
burger.

But in its warning to consumers
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In other words, don’t blame the GMO ingredients!

This GMO lab-grown burger has only one more regulatory hurdle to clear, before
it comes, unlabeled, to a supermarket near you. Any chance the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration will do the right thing?

TAKE ACTION BY SEPTEMBER 3: Tell the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to safety
test the GMO Impossible Burger— before the burger is sold to consumers!
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SUPPORT THE OCA & CRLIMAGINE
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Monsanto Internal documents—130 pages of them—reveal how in 2013 (the year
following the California ballot initiative to require labels on GMOs), the
poison-maker hired Ketchum PR―the public relations firm for Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and many governments known for human rights abuses
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In a blog post published that same year, the CEO of another big PR firm,
Edelman, said:

“We have some clients that pay us $100,000 or so per year, some clients that pay
us more than $100,000 per week and many clients that pay us $100,000 or so per month."

Monsanto’s “reboot” campaign encompassed a massive effort to discredit
scientists, journalists and anyone else critical of Monsanto and GMOs.

We can only imagine what a campaign like the one Monsanto hired Ketchum to run
cost—and how much influence it bought.

But just imagine how much good all that money could do in the world, if it were put to better use?

Organizations like ours will never have the staff or financial resources to run
a comparable counter-campaign to the ones run by companies like Monsanto.

But with your support, we’ll keep up the pressure on Monsanto, and the media, to
tell the truth.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit
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Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not
tax-deductible)
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Click here for more ways to support our work
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VIDEO OF THE WEEKWORTH FIGHTING FOR

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Is the National Organic Program (NOP)
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That’s debatable. And so the question of organic standards enforcement was debated—last month, during the Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA)
conference in Amherst, Mass.

Johanna Mirenda, Organic Trade Association policy director, and Dave Chapman,
farmer and Real Organic Project
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it’s doing wrong.

Demand for organic food is trending up. In 2018, U.S. sales of organic food hit $47.9 billion
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But as demand for organic grows, so grows the number of companies that want a
piece of that pie—and are willing to flout organic rules to get it. That’s a
problem for the “real” organic producers whose prices are undercut by the
fraudsters. And it’s a problem for consumers, who get cheated.

As Chapman says:

“Consumers are being misled. Do we participate in the fraud? Or do we say what
we know is the truth?”

OCA was founded out of the need to protect organic standards
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Watch ‘Real Organic Project and Organic Trade Association Debate’
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YOUR HEALTHR.E.S.P.E.C.T.

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Americans are getting fatter [[link removed]] . But we aren’t getting healthier.

We can expect that trend to continue, unless we fix our food. And we can’t fix
our food unless we fix our soil, which means we stop saturating it with
herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, synthetic chemical fertilizers and
antibiotics.

Scientific American just published a great article
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caused by the decline in soil health. The authors pointed to a report by Eco Farming Daily, citing data going back to
1940, stating this:

“The level of every nutrient in almost every kind of food has fallen between 10
and 100 percent. An individual today would need to consume twice as much meat,
three times as much fruit, and four to five times as many vegetables to obtain
the same amount of minerals and trace elements available in those same foods in
1940.”

How do we fix our soil, food and health? We need a “microbiome renaissance,” the
author said. And that begins with showing Mother Nature a little respect:

It is pure hubris to think we can manipulate nature into agricultural perfection
with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Instead, to adapt to and mitigate the
intertwined ecological, human health and climate crises, we must respect the
elegant complexity of nature.

Read ‘Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes!’
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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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Amazon Admits It Sold Fake Supplements
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In the Largest Prosecution of Organic Fraud in U.S. History, Iowa Grain Seller
Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
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Playing Role of Pesticide 'Cheerleader,' EPA Rebukes Calif. With Ban on Warning
Labels for Roundup
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New York City Is Giving Out Prescriptions for Free Fruits and Vegetables
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Is Grass-Fed Beef Really Better for the Planet? Here's the Science
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What Would a City-Level Green New Deal Look Like? Seattle's About to Find Out
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‘It Is Raining Plastic': USGS Finds Microplastics in 90 Percent of Colorado
Rainwater Samples
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The Second Silent Spring Has Sprung
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