The Gary Null Show - The need for a Regeneration Movement to stave off threats from climate change and food insecurity




The Gary Null Show show

Summary: Ronnie Cummins is the co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexican affiliate Via Organica.  With two million members, the Association is a non profit public interest organization campaigning for sustainable health and justice on critical issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, Fair Trade and environmental sustainability. Along with Vandana Shiva, he serves on the steering committee of Regeneration International.  Ronnie has been a life-long activist in the human rights, anti-nuclear, labor and agricultural movements. In the 1990s, he was a director of the Foundation for Economic Trends in Washington DC.. His writings appear on numerous alternative, independent news including Commondreams, Truthout, and Huffington Post.  He is the author of several books, his latest being "Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food and a Green New Deal," which lays out a plan for a necessary Regeneration Movement to upgrade our agricultural and food system.  His organization’s website is www.OrganicConsumers.org