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NEW - OSA Letter to Department of Justice and US Department of Agriculture
Press Release: Organizations Ask Department of Justice to Take a Hard Look at Monsanto's Claims on Seed Industry
On June 1, 2010, nearly 40 organizations and seed and food companies sent the Departments of Justice and Agriculture a simple reminder: The seed industry demonstrates some of the most troubling concentration trends in agriculture and is in need of a serious examination.
The comments serve as a rebuttal to the Monsanto Company’s assertion that competition in the seed industry is alive and well. Download PDFs of the full press release, letter to DOJ-USDA, and rebuttal of Monsanto's claims below:
Press Release
OSA Letter to Secretary Vilsack and Attorney General Holder & Rebuttal to Monsanto's comments to Department of Justice
Seed Advocacy
Organic Food Integrity Begins With Organic Seed Integrity
Organic Seed Alliance’s mission is to support the ethical development and stewardship of seed. Our advocacy program pursues the implementation of ethical values in seed systems. In particular we believe that organic agriculture holds the potential for the development of a new model of decentralized seed systems that serve community needs.
While there are many risks to organic seed systems - contamination by genetically engineered (GE) crops, concentration in the seed industry and patents, lack of infrastructure and funds for public and open-source breeding - there are also advances and opportunities at hand. The organic seed community does not define itself by what we are not (genetically engineered) but rather by what the value and benefits we bring to organic farmers, consumers, and the environment. OSA advocates for decentralized, farmer-oriented, regional seed systems. The development of such systems will provide us with the integrity and quality of organic seed we need, and food integrity begins with seed integrity.
OSA Advocacy staff are regular contributors to the OSA blog, Seed Broadcast, and are at work on a series of white papers on the benefits of organic breeding and seed, alternative seed ownership models, and a State of Organic Seed Report and Action Plan, and updates on our work fighting to protect the integrity of organic seed. Please – consider donating to our work.
Roundup Ready Beet News
Open Letter to OSA Supporters from Executive Director Dan Hobbs and Director of Advocacy Matthew Dillon
Lawsuit challenging the deregulation of herbicide-tolerant “Roundup Ready” sugar beets
Roundup Ready Beet lawsuit press release
Concerns with Contamination and Coexistence: Biotechnology, organics, and the natural resouce of seed by Matthew Dillon, OSA Director of Advocacy
Farmer Response to RR Sugar Beets by Frank Morton, OSA Board Member and owner of Wild Garden Seed
RR Sugar Beet Update: June 2008 by Matthew Dillon, OSA Director of Advocacy
Advocacy Articles
And We Have the Seeds by Matthew Dillon. Article on the Monsanto purchase of Seminis, the world's largest vegetable seed company.
Follow up to Seminis article on the OSA Blog, Seed Broadcast, regarding their restrictions on saving seed.
First World Conference on Organic Seed, Rome, Italy - Can Organic andn GM Coexist? By Matthew Dillon
Community Seed Network builds international model to preserve biodiversity and protect farmer knowledge
By Matthew Dillon
The Next Great Challenge: Breeding for Organic Systems By Matthew Dillon and Micaela Colley
NOP rule seed allowances help farmers, but make bigger seed business investment more risky: Public-private partnerships, farmer-centered research and stakeholder collaboration with organic rulemakers all needed to strengthen organic genetics. By Matthew Dillon
On-farm Variety Trials - A Valuable Tool for Innovation By Matthew Dillon
Organic Food Integrity Starts with Seed Integrity by Matthew Dillon
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