Ronnie Cummins

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Ronnie Cummins is founder and Director of the Organic Consumers Association
(OCA), a non-profit, U.S. based network of 850,000 consumers, dedicated to
safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and
sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. The OCA¹s primary strategy
is to work on national and global campaigns promoting health, justice, and
sustainability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media
work, litigation, and grassroots lobbying. Cummins is also editor of OCA¹s
website www.organicconsumers.org <http://www.organicconsumers.org/> (30,000
visitors a day) and newsletters, Organic Bytes (270,000 subscribers), and
Organic View. He also serves on the steering committee of OCA¹s Mexico
affiliate, Via Organica.
Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with
extensive experience in human rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, labor,
consumer, environmental, and sustainable agriculture campaigns. Over the
past decades he has served as director of US and international efforts such
as the Pure Food Campaign, and the Global Days of Action Against GMOs. From
1992-98 Cummins served as a campaign director for the Foundation on Economic
Trends in Washington, D.C. In 1998, Cummins organized the SOS (Save Organic
Standards) Campaign, spearheading the largest consumer grassroots backlash
against the US Department of Agriculture in recent history. He is also a
frequent lecturer, both in the US and abroad. Cummins has published numerous
articles and authored a series of children¹s books called Children of the
World. Cummins¹ most recent book is Genetically Engineered Food: A
Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (Second Revised Edition Marlowe & Company
2004). He lives with his wife and 13 year-old son in San Miguel de Allende,
Mexico, headquarters of the OCA in Mexico, as well as in Finland, Minnesota
on the north shore of Lake Superior.