Organic Consumers Elected Officials Survey

Organic Consumers Voters' Guide

Organic Consumers Elected Officials Survey

Send the Organic Consumers Survey to elected officials in your area to see where they stand on these important issues

1.  Do you think organic agriculture should receive a fair share (at least 2.5%) of government resources spent on agriculture?

2.  Do you support strict standards for processed foods, dairy, and body care products that are labeled or marketed as organic?

3. Do you support more aggressive government action to assess the harms of pesticides, take harmful pesticides off the market, and hold companies responsible for diseases and environmental damage caused by pesticides?

4. Should people have the right to pass consumer safety laws at the state or local level that require food labels to include information on dangerous ingredients?

5a. Do you support Country of Origin labels and other labeling that helps consumers choose Made in the USA and local products?

5b: Do you support government action to help US farmers develop local and regional markets and to reduce non-renewable energy use on their farms?

6a. Do you support mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients?

6b: Do you support mandatory pre-market safety testing for all genetically modified foods and crops?

7. Do you support universal testing for Mad Cow disease and a ban on feeding slaughterhouse waste to farm animals?

8. Do you support a restructuring of trade-distorting US farm subsidies?

9. Do you support a significant shift in US farm subsidies to help family farmers and ranchers make the transition to organic?

10. Do you support a significant shift in subsidies to help US farmers adopt conservation and renewable energy practices on farms?

11. Do you support increases for Food Stamps, the WIC (Women, Infant and Children) Farmers' Market Nutrition Program and other programs to help low-income Americans buy organic food?

12. Do you support universal health care with a preventive focus and a major emphasis on better nutrition?

13. Do you support an 80% reduction (by 2050) in climate destabilizing greenhouse gas pollution?

14. Do you support ending the Iraq war and redirecting funds from the $500 billion annual military spending in the US toward greening the US economy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and converting US agriculture to organic practices?

15. Do you support requiring electronic voting machines to produce voter-verified paper records and election officials to use these records to conduct mandatory audits of election results?

16. Do you support eliminating the distorting effect of special interest money on our elections and politicians by requiring full public funding for all federal, state, and local elections?

17. Do you support legislation to prevent internet companies from rigging the system to serve only the highest-paying users and discriminate against users they don't like?

Help Circulate the Organic Consumers Official Survey!

This survey is a cooperative effort by thousands of grassroots organic consumers like you. With your help, we can make the organic movement a strong political force.

Step 1 Find Your State Page
Find your state on the left navigation bar and click on it.

Step 2 Scroll Down to Read Your State's Survey Results
The survey results page for your state lists all of the political elected officials currently in our database for state and national offices and their responses (or lack thereof) to the survey. To add missing elected officials, see steps three and four.

Step 3Lookup Missing Elected Officials in Your State
Gather the contact information for missing elected officials in your state by using the extensive listings of elected official websites at www.politics1.com/states.htm. When you arrive at politics1.com, click on the elected officials' names to go to their websites, then find and record their contact information (especially emails) to complete the next step.

Step 4 Add Elected Officials and Automatically Send Them the Survey
Automatically add missing elected officials in your state to our records while sending them the survey by entering their information into our form. Click Here to Add Elected Officials

Step 5 Contact Elected Officials Who Haven't Yet Answered the Survey
If elected officials have been sent the survey, but their responses are still "pending," please send them the survey again by clicking the "Send Survey" link near their name. Each time a elected official is contacted by people in their area, they will be more likely to fill out the survey - and to realize that organic issues are important issues.

America's 50 million health and green-minded organic consumers are already a potent force in the marketplace, making organics the fastest growing and most promising component in the nation's food and farming sector. To expand organic acreage and market penetration and safeguard standards in this $15 billion industry--in which demand already exceeds supply--it is now necessary to organize ourselves into a potent force for change, not only in the marketplace, but in the realm of public policy and politics as well. To initiate this process, the Organic Consumers Fund (OCF), a nationwide grassroots action and lobbying network, closely allied to the Organic Consumers Association, is compiling a non-partisan Elected Official Survey and Voter Guide for the Nov. 2006 local, state, and Congressional elections, which will include the past voting records of the 535 members of Congress.

The immediate goal of the OCF is to recruit thousands of progressive consumers and voters to distribute the following Elected Official Survey to each and every elected official in their area, and to encourage or pressure elected officials and their campaign committees to respond to the Survey.

A number of elected officials have already replied, while others, especially incumbents and leading major-party elected officials, will need encouragement from voters in their states and districts.

Following completion of the Survey and Voter Guide in October, the Guide will be distributed via email, telephone, mail, and websites to millions of organic consumers across the country, starting with the 850,000-person contact list of the Organic Consumers Fund.

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