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Helping 60 Million More Farmers Go Organic — Ronnie Cummins
Hosts: Meryl Nass, M.D.
*The opinions expressed by the hosts and guests in this show are not necessarily the views of Children’s Health Defense.
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Hosts: Meryl Nass, M.D.
*The opinions expressed by the hosts and guests in this show are not necessarily the views of Children’s Health Defense.
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Ronnie Cummins is co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its international affiliates Via Organica (Mexico) and Regeneration International (OCA) is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and land use. The OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national and global campaigns promoting health, justice, and climate stability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media work, litigation, and grassroots lobbying.
Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, grassroots mobilization, and marketplace pressure campaigns. In 2009 Cummins co-founded Via Organica, a network of organic consumers and farmers based in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. In 2015 Cummins co-founded Regeneration International, a global network dedicated to mitigating and reversing climate change through regenerative food, farming and land use. Cummins is a frequent lecturer, both in the US and abroad as well as a regular contributor to online publications such as Organic Bytes, Mercola.com, and Regeneration International. Cummins is the author of a series of children’s books called Children of the World, as well as the book Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (Marlowe & Company 2004). His 2020 book, Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal was published by Chelsea Green. Cummins’ latest book (Chelsea Green April 2021) The Truth About COVID-19, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Mercola, with an Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, became an international best-seller on Amazon
Cummins lives with his wife and 25-year-old son in Finland, Minnesota and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
