GMO Free USA

09/06/2026

Breaking News: Trump White House Plants GMO Chestnut Trees in President's Park. Nearly two years in... this administration has approved a slew of new toxic synthetic pesticides, new GMOs including the genetically engineered chestnut tree, overturned every PFAS and other chemical regulation that would have protected our food, drinking water and air, all at breakneck speed. The administration helped Bayer-Monsanto win its appeal at the Supreme Court, and let more corporate polluters off the hook than any previous administration, allowing polluting industries to increase their contamination of our food, water, and air with toxins like never before. That's just the shortlist. And now, we have GMO trees planted across from the White House. Need we say more?

Read: https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/why-trump-planting-controversial-genetically-090000464.html

09/06/2026

SIGN THE PETITION: tinyurl.com/PassMCOOL -- Tell your U.S. Representatives and Senators to pass legislation for true Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) for beef and pork products. Poultry, lamb, goat, fish and other foods are required to have COOL labels. We have a right to know where all of our meat products come from!

Trump announced that the U.S. will be importing 300,000 metric tons (over 661 million pounds) of tariff-free beef to be sold for 25% less than current market value, wreaking havoc on the U.S. cattle market. This action will likely bankrupt many American cattlemen. But the Trump administration and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose job it is to know where the beef is coming from, refuses to tell the public.

Two weeks before Trump's announcement, 30,000 pounds of beef from Argentina was recalled because there was a "reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death," according to the USDA.

Yet, the administration now wants Americans to eat mystery beef from who knows where, not allowing us to make the choice to avoid foreign beef or to support real American beef instead. We need to know where all of this imported beef is coming from. All meat products on grocery store shelves, whether conventional or organic, must have honest labeling of their origins.

Tell your U.S. Representatives and Senators to pass legislation for true Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling today. Take action today: tinyurl.com/PassMCOOL

09/05/2026

Nonprofits Sue Trump EPA Over Approval of Carcinogenic PFAS “Forever Chemical” Pesticide Trifludimoxazin: “Trifludimoxazin is a likely human carcinogen that belongs to a family of w**dkillers that also causes reproductive harm, birth defects and neurological deficits in animal studies,” Bill Freese, science director at the Center for Food Safety, said in a press release. “As if the health threats weren’t enough, this incredibly potent herbicide can drift to stunt crops and wild plants hundreds of yards from a sprayed field, while runoff threatens wetland plants. Potent biocides like this have no business on the American landscape.” The pesticide is used to control broadleaf and grass w**d species in a variety of crops, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts and almonds. The EPA memorandum approving the use of trifludimoxazin acknowledged exposure caused adverse thyroid and liver effects in rats but concluded no data was needed at the time.

READ more: https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-sued-over-approval-of-forever-chemical-pesticide

Nonprofits Sue Trump EPA Over Approval of Carcinogenic PFAS “Forever Chemical” Pesticide Trifludimoxazin: “Trifludimoxazin is a likely human carcinogen that belongs to a family of w**dkillers that also causes reproductive harm, birth defects and neurological deficits in animal studies,” Bill Freese, science director at the Center for Food Safety, said in a press release. “As if the health threats weren’t enough, this incredibly potent herbicide can drift to stunt crops and wild plants hundreds of yards from a sprayed field, while runoff threatens wetland plants. Potent biocides like this have no business on the American landscape.” The pesticide is used to control broadleaf and grass w**d species in a variety of crops, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts and almonds. The EPA memorandum approving the use of trifludimoxazin acknowledged exposure caused adverse thyroid and liver effects in rats but concluded no data was needed at the time.

How about we just shut down the EPA? The agency has been doing nothing but rubber-stamping toxic pesticides like there's no tomorrow and letting polluters pollute without abandon.

READ more: https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-sued-over-approval-of-forever-chemical-pesticide

09/04/2026

WATCH this great Real Organic Project podcast conversation with chemical-farmer-turned-organic-farmer, Mark Doudlah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zouSxHY-3po

Mark Doudlah spent years as a successful conventional farmer in Wisconsin, fully committed to the chemical model he had been taught would feed the world. After his father developed mantle cell lymphoma, also called “the cancer of the Midwest,” Mark underwent a painful reckoning around the big cost that chemical agriculture had demanded farm families like his own should bear. A cost that includes glyphosate in their bodies, cancer in their communities, and the ongoing contamination of water and food all around them. Mark made the quick, firm decision to become a dedicated organic farmer without looking back. Today, Doudlah Farms Organics grows dry beans, popcorn, ancient grains, and milled products on more than 1,800 acres, proving that Real Organic farming can work at meaningful scale.

As we always say: THANK AN ORGANIC FARMER. For beans, popcorn, or flour, check out Doudlah Farms Organics website: https://doudlahfarms.com/

09/04/2026

The Rodale Institute, pioneers of organic and regenerative agriculture, broke ground on its $24 million Center for Regenerative Organic Innovation in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Opening in Spring 2028, this international hub will advance research and education to transform the food system. Housed in a historic, net-zero energy barn, the Center is central to Rodale's $139 million "10 Million Acre Solution" campaign, aiming to transition 10 million acres of industrial farmland to regenerative organic and educate 100,000 farmers by 2030. This initiative combats chemical-reliant agriculture, emphasizing soil and human health. Pennsylvania contributed $4 million to the project, which seeks to establish the state as a leader in sustainable farming and empower a new generation of agricultural professionals.

This is TRUE regenerative agriculture. Not that GMO-chemical-nonsense fake-regenerative that Bayer-Monsanto is promoting. Thank you, Rodale.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwatman/2026/07/20/rodale-institute-breaks-ground-on-ambitious-new-center-for-regenerative-organic-innovation-part-of-139-million-farmland-transition-campaign/

09/04/2026

Nonprofits Sue Trump EPA Over Approval of Carcinogenic PFAS “Forever Chemical” Pesticide Trifludimoxazin: “Trifludimoxazin is a likely human carcinogen that belongs to a family of w**dkillers that also causes reproductive harm, birth defects and neurological deficits in animal studies,” Bill Freese, science director at the Center for Food Safety, said in a press release. “As if the health threats weren’t enough, this incredibly potent herbicide can drift to stunt crops and wild plants hundreds of yards from a sprayed field, while runoff threatens wetland plants. Potent biocides like this have no business on the American landscape.” The pesticide is used to control broadleaf and grass w**d species in a variety of crops, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts and almonds. The EPA memorandum approving the use of trifludimoxazin acknowledged exposure caused adverse thyroid and liver effects in rats but concluded no data was needed at the time.

How about we just shut down the EPA? The agency has been doing nothing but rubber-stamping toxic pesticides like there's no tomorrow and letting polluters pollute without abandon.

READ more: https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-sued-over-approval-of-forever-chemical-pesticide

09/04/2026

BOYCOTT DRISCOLL'S and sign the petition: change.org/StopPoisoningOurSchoolchildren

1,3-dichloropropren (1,3-D) – brand name Telone and manufactured by Dow Chemical – is a cancer-causing pesticide also linked to brain and nervous system disorders, respiratory diseases, including asthma, and GI and kidney disorders. Driscoll’s uses it as a soil fumigant on its conventional berry farms next to elementary and middle schools. 1,3-D is highly volatile, evaporating into vapors that can drift for miles. 1,3-D has been detected INSIDE of schools. And children in Driscoll’s berry growing region, in California's Pajaro Valley, suffer cancer at rates 38% higher than the state average. 1,3-D is just one of many toxic pesticides that Driscoll's uses on its conventional farms.

HELP US SPREAD AWARENESS about Driscoll's harmful farming practices and BOYCOTT DRISCOLL'S conventional berries until they stop poisoning schoolchildren. READ more about the Boycott Driscoll's campaign and sign the petition: tinyurl.com/BoycottDriscolls

09/03/2026

Big Ag and Big Chemical are shaking in their boots. Iowans are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Literally. Iowa has the second highest rate of cancer in the nation, and it's one of the few states where cancer rates are rising. Why? Because of conventional farming practices--overuse of toxic synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that pollute soil, water and air. But politicians of both parties have traditionally protected the practices of Big Ag and the profits of chemical corporations like Bayer-Monsanto, Syngenta, and Corteva. But this election season has seen the cancer issue become a top issue for Iowans. AS IT SHOULD BE.

“Many people in the primary said, ‘You can’t win an election in the Republican primary talking about the big agricultural conglomerates that are extorting our farmers, talking about clean water, and how we need to lower our cancer rates.’ We did talk about it, and we won,” said Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn in a stump speech earlier this month at the Iowa State Fair, where the farm industry’s influence loomed large, in the form of corporate sponsorships, expansive exhibits and free swag.

"Insiders have been pushing a bill that would give immunity to companies that are sickening Iowans. Chemical companies have spent decades buying influence with government insiders, while a foundational study upon which the claim of safety was recently retracted for being influenced by the same company that makes the chemicals. We need to protect Iowans’ health by letting the courts and juries, not politicians, decide whether chemical companies need to pay for the pesticides that pollute our air and water," said Democrat candidate for governor, Rob Sand.

Not wanting cancer from the toxic chemicals made by Bayer, Syngenta, and Corteva is not a left or right issue. It’s an “I DON'T WANT CANCER” issue. And certainly, no pesticide corporation should receive immunity when their products cause harm.

READ more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/31/maha-iowa-big-ag-01056179