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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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New Developments on the Grower Group Lawsuit

Last fall, we provided extensive coverage on the grower group lawsuit against the USDA, and there has been some movement on the case as of late. Representing eight organic stakeholders, Center for Food Safety recently filed a “friend of the court” amicus brief in support of grower group certification. OrganicEye, which sits on the other side of the case, responded to this action and shared a possible compromise.

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