"Organic cheater" body care
brands were publicly shamed at a recent non-violent street
protest by the Organic
Consumers Association. Do you know which "organic" brands aren't
really organic? You won't want to miss this story. Check out the
article here: (Also see below)
https://www.naturalnews.com/028500_organic_products_shampoo.html
Here are the names of brands to boycott,
according to the Organic Consumers Association:• Avalon "Organics"
• Desert Essence "Organics"
•
Earth's Best "Organic"
• Eminence "Organic" (Except Few w/USDA Seal)
•
Giovanni "Organic"
• Goodstuff "Organics"
• Head "Organics"
•
Jason "Pure, Natural & Organic"
• Kiss My Face "Obsessively
Organic"
• Nature's Gate "Organics"
• Physicians Formula "Organic"
Wear
• Stella
McCartney "100% Organic"
Read more at the OCA's Coming Clean Campaign here:https://www.organicconsumers.org/bodycare/index.cfm
More news continues below on alternative medicine,
antidepressants and a scandal involving organ transplants...
(NaturalNews) The Organic Consumers Association has long fought
against what it calls "organic cheater brands" -- personal care products
that use the name "organic" in the product name or brand, yet are not
truly organic products at all. This year at the Expo West Natural
Products Expo in Anaheim, California, the OCA staged a very visible
public protest to expose what it calls "sham poo products" that are
"organic cheaters."The protest was part of the OCA's Coming
Clean Campaign which continues to expose dishonest or misleading
products in the skin care industry. Due in large part to the OCA's
efforts, Whole Foods now says it will enforce honest labeling by
taking a closer look at the word "organic" on personal care products (
https://www.organicconsumers.org/bod...).
I
was present at the protest, where I spoke with some of the participants
and captured some video footage of the action. You can watch the full
video right now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BaO...What
really happened at the protestThe protest was largely peaceful,
and even though police did search the protestors -- a violation of their
4th Amendment rights -- they did not make any arrests. New Hope
Media, the company that organizes the Expo West trade show each
year, dispatched staffers to act as human shields to visually
block the protest signs by standing in front of them. I attempted to get
some of the New Hope Media personnel to explain why they were standing
in front of the signs, asking them if they were attempting to block the
signs, and they told me that they actually had no intention of blocking
anything, that they were just "standing here" for no particular reason.
(Yeah, right...)
They couldn't say, of course, that the "organic
cheater" brands whose signs they were blocking also happened to be some
of the largest paying exhibitors at the show, and these show organizers
were no doubt attempting to shield these companies from being publicly
shamed. That act alone raises the all-important question: Why is New
Hope Media protecting organic cheater brands?
There's
something you need to know about the Expo West trade show: That show has
an on-duty FDA officer who runs around the show threatening
companies that make truthful health claims on their product labels. New
Hope Media is apparently quite content with an FDA tyrant running around
the show threatening people for telling the truth, but when the Organic
Consumers Association tries to expose the truth about organic cheater
brands, New Hope Media places itself in the position of defending the
cheaters!
Why is it illegal to tell the truth at Expo West,
but it's perfectly fine for some companies to lie to consumers through
misleading product names... and New Hope Media will actually go to bat
for those cheaters by sending people onto the street to disrupt a public
protest that exposes the lies!I find this all quite
fascinating. Expo West is a terrific trade show with lots of really
great companies sharing their health products, but it does seem that New
Hope Media is eroding its own credibility by going to bat for organic
cheater brands. Instead of defending organic cheater brands, the company
might do itself a favor by requiring them to have honest labels before
they can exhibit at the show! Watch the video yourself to see the
signs being blocked by New Hope Media employees (the guys in the
suits):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BaO...Organic
Cheater Brands' Hazard Score from the Environmental Working Group's
"Skin Deep" Cosmetic Safety Database
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tilffYceF9_7vHToVFQii1Q&gid=8And view the YouTube video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BaO_fnQTnI
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