Organic Consumers Association - OCA
Cause Area
- Health & Medicine
Location
3547 Haines Rd.Duluth, MN 55811 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
"The OCA educates and unites organic consumers to protectthe integrity of the organic label, promote sustainable andorganic agriculture, oppose hazardous practices ofindustrialized farming and genetic engineering, and protectcitizens' right to know how their food is produced andprocessed."
Description
Organic Consumers Association is a national grassroots consumers campaign which grew out of the massive organic consumer response to the USDA's first round on Organic Standards(270,000 comments were submitted). OCA runs the SOS - Save Organic Standards campaign and the Food Agenda 2000 campaign. "The OCA educates and unites organic consumers to protect the integrity of the organic label, promote sustainable and organic agriculture, oppose hazardous practices of industrialized farming and genetic engineering, and protect citizens' right to know how their food is produced and processed."