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September 2025
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Omar Dieguez completes 30-Day Hunger Strike Against Driscoll’s

As we profiled in our last letter, Omar Dieguez was on a hunger strike to get Driscoll’s and California Giant Berry Farms, which both sell products under conventional and organic labels, to stop spraying toxic pesticides on fields next to schools in Watsonville and convert these farms to organic. So far, the two companies have taken no such action. During his hunger strike, Omar was banned from entering schools by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, who deemed his talks about pesticide spraying as too “controversial.”

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Watchdog Group OrganicEye alleges Corruption at the USDA and CCOF

In 2024, OrganicEye filed a legal complaint against CCOF, the nation’s largest certifier, citing conflict of interest. Now, OrganicEye released a white paper saying that CCOF, which, despite numerous inspections over a period of years, failed to identify serious animal welfare violations and the use of banned toxins on California’s Alexandre Family Farm. In a statement from Alexandre Family Farm, the company said that “our commitment to our animals is unwavering, as is our commitment to upholding organic standards,” and “the OrganicEye report is riddled with falsehoods and repeats some animal welfare allegations that we are challenging in court.”

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