Family Farm Defenders

Should retailers - like Target - continue to peddle pesticides through their products? Concerned shareholders brought up this issue at Target's annual meeting in Minneapolis yesterday. Consumers can also add their voice by calling Target's customer service hotline and ask them to detoxify their entire supply chain. 1 (800) 440-0680 Who really wants to buy a toxic cocktail with your baby food?

Shareholders Push Target to Address Toxic Pesticides at Annual Meeting Target’s investors are recognizing that toxic pesticide use is not just an environmental crisis — it’s also material to Target’s business.

What a sad way to begin June Dairy Month with another expose of corporate agribusiness greenwashing! If you really want to support WI dairy farmers, be sure to support smallscale grass-based and/or organic producers. And for milk less traveled, look for the number 55 on your dairy product plant code - that means it was at least bottled/processed in our own state!

Report accuses corporate dairy of ‘greenwashing’ • Wisconsin Examiner A report found that the world's largest meat and dairy companies, including some with Wisconsin ties, have made exaggerated climate claims.

Sick and tired of paying too much for seeds? Aren't seeds part of the commons - that all of us should be able to share without paying some corporation for their patented intellectual property? Universal free access to open source biodiversity is one of the key principles of food sovereignty!

A Guide to Seed Intellectual Property Rights - Organic Seed Alliance This guide was written by Paulina Jenney and adapted from her professional paper, "Keeping What You Sow: Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Breeders and Seed Growers," submitted in May 2022 to the University of Montana.