| Current
News: |
| |
 One
Minute Activist: February 2007 |
 |
| |
One
Minute Activist: September 2005
This month we ask PBS Station KVIE to be sure that their
"American Heartland" program is balanced, and not
merely propaganda bought and paid for by Monsanto. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: August 2005
We are helping a campaign dealing with nutritional advertising
to children. We start with a Kellogg's campaign, described in
the letter below, that takes on the apple, making the apple
character, "Bad Apple," grouchy and sour. It may sound
silly, but the rising childhood obesity rates in the United
States is nothing to laugh at. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: July 2005
Ask our Senators to guard our freedom of access to vitamins,
minerals and other supplements. Please feel free to send this
to your friends and neighbors - we need to get everyone's support
to stop drug companies from limiting our access to alternative
health care. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: June 2005
This month we ask our US Senators to support continuing subsidies
for renewable energy |
| |
One
Minute Activist: May 2005
This month, we ask the national organic standards board to tighten
standards for calling body care products "organic."
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: April 2005
This month's One Minute Activist concerns the erosion of standards
in the National Organic Program. We are asking that the original
standards not be diluted for the sake of expediency and profit.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: March 2005
Urge the United Nations Environmental Programme
to continue the international ban on Generic Use Restriction
Technologies (GURTS), otherwise known as the "Terminator
Technology." |
| |
One
Minute Activist: February 2005
We are writing to oppose the proposed arrangement with concentrated
animal feeding operations (CAFOs), wherein these factories would
be granted immunity from clean air standards for two years (and
forgiven for past fines regarding violations of those standards.)
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: January 2005
Please help us end the horrific use of children of poor families
as test subjects for toxic chemicals. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: December 2004
This month's One Minute Activist deals with the fact that the
FDA has admitted that it cannot keep our food safe from Genetically
Engineered and Pharmaceutical GE product contamination, and
instead of working harder, is trying to get us to accept the
contamination.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: November 2004
As we prepare to give thanks for what we receive, we again ask
the FDA to be sure we can choose to receive
real food in the future. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: October 2004
Help save our National Forests from further destruction - save
the Roadless Area Conservation Rule |
| |
One
Minute Activist: September 2004
Tell "The Governator" that we have an inalienable
right to pass laws banning the cultivation and production of
genetically engineered crops and animals. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: Summer 2004
Tell Exxon Mobil Corporation to stop the PR campaign to spread
doubt about the science of Global Warming. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: June 2004
Tell the EPA that they are not doing enough to protect Americans,
especially women and children, from toxic mercury pollution
coming from coal-fired power plants!
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: May 2004
Tell the National Organic Program listen to the member-volunteers,
and to keep the rules strict! |
| |
One
Minute Activist: April 2004
Let Kraft Foods, one of the largest food companies in the US,
know that we don't want Genetically Engineered products in our
food |
| |
One
Minute Activist: March 2004
If you have been watching the news lately, you have seen stories
on Seafood contaminated with Mercury. Now the EPA, in their
never-ending efforts to do exactly what big special interests
- in this case the energy industries - want them to do, are
trying to reclassify mercury as a less hazardous pollutant.
Help us save our health and our children's future on this planet
by writing them today! |
| |
One
Minuite Activist: February 2004
Urge Senator Kerry to protect human health and cosponsor The
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, that
would phase out the practice of feeding massive quantities of
antibiotics to food animals. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: January 2004
Thank Attorney General Tom Reilly for filing suit to stop the
EPA power plant ruling of August of 2003, which allowed some
of the largest polluters to upgrade utilities, refineries and
other industrial facilities without installing additional pollution
controls which they had already agreed to install. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: December 2003
Ask Senator Kerry to remove this provision from the energy bill
that would block efforts by states, counties, school boards
to get oil companies to clean up drinking water pollution from
the toxic gasoline additive, MTBE. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: November 2003
Ask for your State Representative's support for Massachusetts
H3012, an act to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law, in relation
to genetically modified pharmaceutical crops. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: October 2003
Urge Senator Kerry to protect human health
and cosponsor The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment
Act. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: September 2003
Urge Monsanto to drop their lawsuit against tiny Oakhurst
Dairy regarding their Farmer's Pledge, which advertises that
their farmers pledge not to use artificial growth hormones on
their cows. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: July/August 2003
Ask Governor Romney to support the Cape Wind Farm proposed for
Nantucket Sound. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: June 2003
Express your strong support for the Massachusetts Renewable
Energy Trust. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: May 2003
Urge "W" to respect the overwhelming consensus for
environmental protection in this country and stop using government
agencies to let big corporations rewrite our environmental laws.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: April 2003
This month, we ask Senator Peter Domenici,
Chair of the Energy Committee, to support a bill (S. 139) cutting
U.S. global warming pollution to 2000 levels by 2010 and 1990
levels by 2016. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: March 2003 #1
We are working to retain tough standards within the National
Organics Program. We are asking our senators to join as sponsors
of a bill to repeal the newly passed rule that organic poultry
does not have to be fed 100% organic feed. (I know this sounds
like a no-brainer, but obviously it wasn't). |
| |
One
Minute Activist: March 2003 #2
We are again working again with the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood
Pesticide Action Committee (JPNPAC) to urge the MDC to end the
use of toxic chemicals in the parks we use. Together we achieved
a partial victory with our last campaign (One Minute Activist
of September 2002) when they have agreed not to use MWRA Toxic
Sludge on our parks. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: January/February 2003
Tell the USDA that it should impose at least a one-year moratorium
on field tests and commercial production of engineered pharmaceutical
and industrial crops. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: December 2002
Ask USDA Secretary Ann Veneman to drop plans to permit irradiated
food to be served in the National School Lunch Program.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: November 2002
Show your support to Senator Richard Durbin's (D, Illinois)
recently introduced bill, S 3095, which would establish a mandatory
approval process to assure the safety of genetically engineered
(GE) foods. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: October 2002
This month we are asking President
George W. Bush to support the Genetically Engineered Food Right
to Know Act. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: September 2002
This month we are writing to ask that
the Massachusetts District Commission discontinue use of dangerous
pesticides and toxic sludge in the MDC parks and recreation
areas.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: August 2002
Ask Senator John Kerry to vote in favor
of S. 2499, the Food Allergen Consumer Protection Act, which
the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions is scheduled
to consider this month. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: July 2002
Ask Senator John Kerry to co-sponsor item S. 2508, the Preservation
of Antibiotics for Human Treatment Act of 2002, introduced by
Senator Kennedy on May 13, 2002. S. 2508 would stop the routine
feeding of medically important antibiotics to healthy livestock.
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: June 2002
Ask Congressmen Capuano, Frank, Lynch and Meehan to support
five bills concerning genetically engineered foods. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: May, 2002
Ask Senator Tom Daschle to stand firm against any
proposals to weaken the 10 percent standard, that requires electric
companies to provide 10 percent of their electricity from wind,
solar and other renewable energy sources by 2020. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: April, 2002
Ask Citigroup to cease funding rainforest destruction
in Latin America, and instead promote sustainable development. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: March, 2002
Ask Governor Jane Swift to rethink cutting
35% of the budget of the Department of Food and Agriculture,
as this means less support for local family farms
|
| |
One
Minute Activist: February, 2002
Ask Senator John Kerry to ask for his assistance in protecting
the freedom to access to vitamins and supplements written into
the DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of
1994. |
| |
One
Minute Activist: January, 2002
Request the FDA to maintain the current labeling
requirements for irradiated foods, and reject any attempts to
use deceptive terms, such as "cold pasteurization"
and "electronic pasteurization" as substitutes. |
| |
Board
Resolution Implementing the New Membership System
with revisions
approved April 23, 2001 |
|
| |
By-laws
of Boston Food Cooperative, Inc.
With Amendments as of March 2001.
|
|
| |
ACT
NOW!
There are three bills before the Massachusetts State Legislature
that concern Genetically Engineered foods. We need to contact
our state legislators to show support for these bills NOW!
|
|
| |
Chris Durkin’s testimony before
the Massachusetts House and Senate Joint Committee on Commerce
and Labor.
"We have been educating our members and shoppers about
the potential hazards of Genetically Engineered foods for over
four years through our monthly newsletter, bulletin board displays,
and outreach programs." |
|
| |
Archives:
Herb
Notes archive
Harvest
Times Archive
|
|
