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[In my non-objective personal world and with my focus on consumer protection issues, this is a huge and significant endorsement. It goes right to the core of what needs to be fixed in the United States, in my book, starting with the FDA and getting rid of the corporate stranglehold that corrupts normal regulatory processes. Ronnie Cummins has been a stalwart champion of the organic way of life, staying healthy, and protecting those less fortunate from the ravages of junk food, with an enviable long career with many successes. This endorsement goes straight to the heart of why I have worked for 4 years to help Bernie Sanders win.]
The Board of Directors for CRL representing about 2 million U.S. consumers and thousands of farmers and ranchers, today announced its endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Ronnie Cummins, president of the board, issued the following statement:
"Sen. Sanders, the first of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders to back the Green New Deal, has outlined a $16.3-trillion plan that includes $841 billion to transform the U.S. industrial agriculture system into an organic regenerative food and farming system that supports independent family farmers, guarantees access to healthy, locally produced food for all, cleans up our waterways, restores soil health and biodiversity and promotes climate stability."Industrial agriculture's monopolistic approach to food and farming has all but destroyed America's family farms and rural communities. And the industry's reliance on toxic chemicals and degenerative farming practices makes it one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas pollution. Sanders' Green New Deal, in addition to holding the fossil fuel industry legally and financially accountable for its pollution and climate-destructive behavior, also takes on Big Ag by, among other things, enforcing anti-trust laws and declaring a moratorium on factory farms.
"Sanders' Green New Deal is the only plan in the industrialized world that sets a goal high enough to actually reverse global warming and eliminate economic injustice, environmental destruction, deteriorating public health and global conflict, while also offering the first realistic assessment and timeline for what needs to be done in the limited time frame left to avoid climate catastrophe."
In September 2019, CRL, along with Regeneration International, Organic Consumers Association, the Sunrise Movement and other organizations, launched the