Hello Tom,
We’re not putting out a regular issue of Organic Bytes this week because we’d like to tell you the “good news” about our strategic plans for 2022 and ask you for your year-end support, which we need now, more than ever.
Two of OCA’s major donors have offered a matching donation for every gift that you give us in the month of December.
The U.S. and much of the world are unfortunately accelerating toward self-destruction, right in front of our eyes. The body politic is sick, divided, demoralized, and battered. Everyone knows by now that highly-processed, pesticide-tainted, sugar-laden, factory-farmed, GMO junk food, and a polluted environment are literally poisoning us and our children—setting us up for chronic disease, obesity, cancer, and heart disease, and making us, especially the elderly and the seriously health-compromised, susceptible to the ravages of engineered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2.
The root of our societal sickness and vulnerability is that organic and regenerative food and farming, and natural health supplements, herbs, and remedies, the best medicines for our health, and the essential prerequisites for a strong immune system, are still the alternative, rather than the norm, often unavailable or beyond the means of many of our fellow citizens, especially low-income and marginalized communities, or those living under vulnerable conditions in nursing homes.
Corrupt politicians in both parties continue to use our tax dollars to subsidize corporate agribusiness, industrial pollution, genetic engineering, and the toxic food that is killing us. Meanwhile, the military-industrial complex, the National Institutes of Health, and Big Pharma continue funding the mad science of weaponizing viruses and other Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs), using the excuse that these dual-use labs and experiments (medical and military) are necessary for biodefense or medical/vaccine research. It is this reckless “gain-of-function” engineering, souping-up viruses and pathogens, that not only caused COVID-19, but potentially threatens us with future lab accidents or deliberate releases of smallpox, anthrax, ebola, and a frightening arsenal of other engineered bioweapons.
Our forests are burning. Aquifers are being depleted. Most lakes and streams are polluted. Wetlands and marine ecosystems are being destroyed. Bees, pollinators and native seeds are under assault. Companies like Bayer/Monsanto and Syngenta/ChemChina are allowed to spread their poisons and contaminate our food and water. The great web of biodiversity is unraveling. The climate is in free fall. Our children and the most vulnerable are forced to struggle harder than ever, just to survive. Depression, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, and suicide have reached epidemic proportions.
Beyond the Nightmare
And yet, as we’ve insisted throughout the nightmare of the last 24 months, there are organic and regenerative solutions at hand, no further away than our knives and forks, our consumer dollars, the ground below our feet, and the voting booths in our local communities. Despite threats, censorship, corruption, and intimidation, we at OCA and our allies across the continent believe that we can restore public health and revitalize our moribund Republic.
Millions of us are living healthy, organic lives, and creating positive solutions in our local communities. There is a subterranean spirit of resistance and renewal, percolating just below the surface, that we believe is ready to manifest itself in 2022 and beyond. OCA looks forward, with your support and participation, to being an instigator and a midwife in this Great Awakening and Grassroots Rising.
We know from experience that we can transform our degenerative food and farming system. We can move beyond corporate disinformation and government-imposed censorship to share the best practices of organic food, natural health, nutrition, and integrative medicine. We can clean up our toxic environment and detoxify the hyper-partisan politics that has polarized civil society. We can move from elite domination to participatory democracy.
We must bring profit-at-any-cost corporations, captured media and regulatory agencies, indentured politicians, Silicon Valley surveillance capitalists, out-of-control genetic engineers, virologists, and bioweapons profiteers to heel.
The bad news is that the panic-mongering and censorship engendered by the mass media and hyper-partisan politicians has created unprecedented fear, confusion, and polarization. The forces of the Establishment have put OCA and our closest allies such as Mercola.com, Children’s Health Defense, and the anti-GMO movement in their cross-hairs.
The good news is that we’ll never have a better opportunity for transformational change than we have right now.
Obviously millions of people want to know the truth about food, farming and natural health, as well the origins, nature, virulence, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19, and how we can prevent future engineered pandemics.
I believe that we, the global grassroots, are literally at a turning point in history. This is the crucial moment when we must step up our truth-telling and educational efforts. We must build stronger coalitions, resist the enormous power of the global elites, and bring about fundamental changes in the marketplace, public policy, and finance.
We believe that OCA and our sister organizations, Regeneration International (our international network), Citizens Regeneration Lobby (our USA lobbying group), and Via Organica (our Mexico sister organization) have a crucial role to play in this organic and regenerative revolution.
We are launching two new campaigns in 2022 to jump-start this Regeneration Revolution:
A U.S. and Global Campaign to Ban the Engineering and Weaponization of Viruses, Bacteria, and all Potential Pandemic Pathogens to bring to justice the perpetrators of COVID-19, and stop future lab-release pandemics before they start.
A Food as Medicine Campaign to make local organic and regenerative food the norm in all schools and nursing homes, as well as providing healthy organic food to recipients of Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps.
We know that the pandemic and lockdowns have taken a toll on many people’s finances. OCA’s fundraising, which depends upon small donors, has fallen by 25% over the last two years. We still have 300,000 loyal subscribers to Organic Bytes and two million social media supporters, but we neeed to raise additional funds to gain new subscribers.
So today we are asking you to make a sacrifice and donate to us. We need your support more than ever.
Two of OCA’s major donors have pledged to match every dollar that you give us over the month of December. Our future efforts depend upon your support.
Please make a generous donation at this time, if you are able. Thank you for your support.
Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not tax-deductible)
Donate $100 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Ronnie’s 2020 book, Grassroots Rising or a copy of Ronnie’s new book, co-authored with Dr. Mercola, The Truth About COVID-19
Thank you.
Regeneratively,
Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers International Director