Re: SOS--Stop The Sneak Attack in Congress on Organic Standards

SOS Update October 14, 2005
Over the past few weeks, Organic Consumers Association network members have deluged the U.S. congress with over 170,000 emails and over 20,000 telephone calls. Thank you for your support. (See a list of more than 200 organic businesses who have signed on to support this alert here). This nearly unprecedented grassroots upsurge has temporarily rattled Congress and the industry, delaying the initial Sneak Attack in the Senate on organic standards, resulting in a compromise amendment (H.R. 2744) September 21 calling for “further study of the issue.”

Unfortunately we expect another, possibly even more serious, Sneak Attack in the House/Senate Conference Committee over the next week as Congress members put the final wording together for the 2006 Congressional Agriculture Appropriations Bill (for a list of committee members and contact info, click here). Therefore OCA is now calling on consumers and the organic community to apply pressure to their House of Representatives members as well as their Senators to stop the Conference Committee from degrading the standards. In addition we urge everyone to start applying pressure to the Organic Trade Association, who are unfortunately spearheading this Sneak Attack. We ask everyone who has read our SOS Action Alert and signed our petition to Congress to call your House of Representative member 202-224-3121, as well as the OTA: 413-774-7511.
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