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  • California Could Be The First Organic-To-School State

    Assembly Bill 958 was introduced in February 2019, and will create the first-ever Organic-to-School pilot program at the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Office of Farm to Fork.

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  • Want to get pesticides out of your school playgrounds? Check out our new toolkit!

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  • California Approved Statewide Pesticide Program

    Toxic pesticides that pose health risks will be sprayed at the sole discretion of the State of California. The public lost the right to challenge the State's decisions. We filed a lawsuit!

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  • Our work creates healthy communities for children

    by reducing their exposure to household and environmental toxins.

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  • Non-GMO Restaurant List

    We have a list of Marin County restaurants LEAST likely to be serving GMOs.

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  • Are genetically modified foods safe?

    We have been eating these foods for years, and the government has approved them. The vast majority of food American’s eat today – even baby formula -- contains GMOs. Aren’t they safe?

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  • A New Year, A New Victory

    A California court has halted a state program allowing pesticide spraying at schools, organic farms and backyards across California because of inadequate public disclosure of the chemicals’ harms.

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MOMAS founder, Debbie Friedman, talks about recent victory

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Rika in News

Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America interviews our co-founder, Debbie Friedman on her recent victory to end state pesticide spraying.

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Come see us at The 36th Annual National Pesticide Forum

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Rika in News

Announcing the The 36th Annual National Pesticide Forum hosted by Washington DC based non-profit Beyond Pesticides, University of California Irvine Center for Occupational Health and Non Toxic Irvine, a group of dedicated citizens, parents, and scientists working with city officials to successfully transition the City of Irvine to organic land management. The topic: Organic Neighborhoods: […]

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Enormous MOMAS Victory… Court Ruling Ends Decades of State Pesticide Spraying

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Rika in News

Court Ruling Ends Decades of State Pesticide Spraying Judge strips California Food and Agriculture Agency of Authority to Use Chemicals Sacramento CA – A judge has ordered the California Department of Food and Agriculture to stop using chemical pesticides in its statewide program until the agency complies with state environmental laws.The injunction, issued late last week, is a sweeping victory for health, […]

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We Have a HUGE Victory to Share!

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Irina Webb in News

An appeals court threw out the State of California’s Light Brown Apple Month (LBAM) pesticide program on the grounds that it violates state environmental laws. Their plan was to spray toxic pesticides over multiple counties in the San Francisco Bay Area every 30-90 days for seven years for an agricultural pest. This “spray now, think […]

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Organic Food Protects Your Health

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Irina Webb in Healthy Eating

By Myrto Ashe, MD, MPH, a functional medicine family physician Sometimes it can be hard to decide: Should you spend the extra money on organic foods? Will it matter for your health? For your kids? Who do you believe? Up until now, we have only had clues that organic foods make a difference. We have argued […]

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What Does “Anti-Science” Really Mean?

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Irina Webb in GMOs

By, Myrto Ashe, MD, MPH, a functional medicine family physician We have noticed a rash of comments in a variety of mainstream media accusing anyone who questions the safety of genetically modified foods of being “anti-science” and “hysterical”. These comments will also typically include the statements that hysterical anti-science people also oppose vaccinations and deny climate […]

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GMO Education and Labeling

The Issue

A genetically modified organism or “GMO” food is a plant or animal product that has had its DNA artificially altered to produce foreign compounds in that food. Over 80% of [...]

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Opposition to the Light Brown Apple Moth Program

The Issue

In 2007 the State of California repeatedly sprayed densely populated areas in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties from low [...]

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We Did It! Defeat of the Statewide Pest Environmental Impact Report

Victory! Court Rejects California’s Blanket Approval for Pesticide Spraying   From our joint press release with Center for Biological Diversity:  A California court has [...]

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Photo credit for light brown moth: Donald Hobern, Epiphyas postvittana under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.