FYI Richard makes the case very well here for keeping mandatory COOL labeling. Send this out to everyone on your email list folks. We have to get this word out that corporate America is trying to take away our basic right to know where our food comes from so they can bring it in from…

For Immediate Release July 3, 2015 OCM Repeats Call For U.S. Withdrawal From The WTO An Independence Day Press Re-Release: The OCM Press Release of four years ago that follows, reflects our frustration with the WTO decision made at that time, relative to the U.S. ability to implement its own mandatory COOL. The press release…

Photo from outside the climate conference at the Vatican. (photo: CIDSE) People and Planet First By Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything 02 July 15 aomi delivered the following remarks at a press conference introducing “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course,” a high-level meeting being held at the Vatican this week to explore…

JBS buys Cargill’s pork business for $1.45 billion Published: July 1, 2015 4:50 p.m. ET By ClaudiaAssis Brazilian food giant JBS S.A. said Wednesday its U.S.-based pork subsidiary has agreed to buy Cargill’s U.S.-based pork business for $1.45 billion. Included in the acquisition are two Midwest meat processing plants that together process 9.3 million hogs….

Q&A: Corps. Will Pass Costs on to Farmers Ag and Trade 07/01/2015 Corporations would like to get the credit for reforming the poultry industry. But they’d like to pass along the costs of change to chicken farmers, says a commercial grower. What choice do chicken growers have? Under the current rules, only two: Take it…

What will the world be like under the rule of the WTO … Dystopian Novel, The Water Thief, Imagines the Corporate-Controlled Future of America Saturday, 13 July 2013 09:16 By Martha Sorren, Truthout | Book Review (Image: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) With the government increasingly protecting corporations instead of people, as with Citizens United, it…

June 30, 2015 www.competitivemarkets.com Contacts: Mike Callicrate, President (785)-332-8218 mike John Hansen, Vice President (402) 476-8815 john OCM Opposes Monsanto Purchase of Syngenta (June 30, 2015) –The Organization for Competitive Markets Board of Directors passed a resolution opposing Monsanto’s purchase of Syngenta. The buyout would allow the world’s largest seed company to acquire the world’s…