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The Committee for the Right to Know is a grassroots coalition of consumer, public health, environmental organizations, and food companies in California that works for the labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMOs).
Just Label It is a national campaign consisting of more than 550 partner organizations that support a petition for the FDA to require all GE foods to be labeled as such.
SFTA is a non-profit trade association dedicated to helping the organic food trade transition to more sustainable practices while raising the bar across the entire food industry.
In 2018, New Resource Bank merged with Amalgamated Bank. For nearly a century, Amalgamated has served as America’s socially responsible bank, supporting forward-thinking organizations, companies, and individuals across the country. They are an advocate for those working to make the world more just, compassionate and sustainable.
Climate Collaborative is a group of concerned businesses from the natural products industry working collaboratively to catalyze bold action, amplify the voice of business, and promote sound policy to reverse climate change.
At the Creamery, Straus uses MCE’s Deep Green 100% renewable energy. Whether you’re a resident or a local business, you have the choice to enroll in a renewable energy program if you wish.
In the early 1970s, development plans for the Tomales Bay region posed a threat to the long tradition of family farming. Two early environmentalists, Phyllis Faber and Albert Straus’ mother, Ellen Straus, decided to fight, so they co-founded the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), a private, member-supported non-profit organization dedicated to permanently preserving Marin County farmland for agricultural use.
The Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance mission is simple – preserve, protect, and ensure the sustainability and integrity of organic dairy farming across the west.
NOC is a national alliance of organizations working to provide a “Washington voice” for farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, consumers and industry members involved in organic agriculture. NOC provides a united voice for organic integrity, leading to strong, enforceable, and continuously improving standards to maximize the health, environmental, and economic benefits that only organic agriculture affords. The coalition works to assure that policies are fair, equitable, and encourage diversity of participation and access.
OSA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advances ethical seed solutions to meet food and farming needs in a changing world. Each year OSA educates thousands of farmers and other agricultural community members, conducts professional organic plant breeding and seed production research, and advocates for national policies to strengthen organic seed systems.
NOP is a regulatory program housed within the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and is responsible for developing national standards for organically-produced agricultural products.
MOCA is the organic certification agency within Marin County’s Agricultural Commissioner’s office. MOCA was created and inspired by the community it serves: local growers, livestock producers, handlers, and consumers.
For more than twenty years, CFS has been at the forefront of organizing a powerful food movement that fights the industrial model while promoting organic, ecological, and sustainable alternatives.
CDFA protects and promotes California’s $47 billion agricultural industry. California’s farmers and ranchers produce a safe, secure supply of food, fiber and shelter; marketed fairly for all Californians; and produced with responsible environmental stewardship.
PETALUMA, Calif., (Nov 3, 2022)—Straus Family Creamery, a certified organic creamery whose mission is to sustain family farms and revitalize rural communities, organized the newly formed group named Western Organic Dairy Farming Crisis Coalition.
Founded in 1973, CCOF promotes and supports organic food and agriculture through a premier organic certification program, trade support, producer and consumer education, and political advocacy.

San Francisco Examiner

When it comes to climate change, cows have taken a reputational hit. These belching bovines have been villainized for releasing methane, a greenhouse gas with more than 25 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.

Inside Climate News

The Straus Family Creamery, an organic dairy producer in Marin County, California, made headlines last fall after receiving approval from regulatory agencies to conduct a trial of a new seaweed-derived feed additive called Brominata.

Organic Insider

If you are eating “animal-free” dairy or meat products that taste nearly identical to a traditional animal product, you should be asking plenty of questions. And more often than not, what you will discover is that these foods are anything but “natural.”

Dairy Global

Thousands of dairy farms worldwide have worked to reduce carbon emissions over the last few years, if not for much longer, but only 4 have made a public commitment to being carbon neutral by a given date.
PETALUMA, Calif., (May 9, 2022)—Straus Family Creamery Founder and CEO Albert Straus’ goal of a carbon-neutral dairy farming model on his farm by 2023 is one step closer.

San Francisco Chronicle

California dairy farms will soon be able to feed their cows seaweed to fight climate change after the state Department of Food and Agriculture approved the use of a seaweed feed shown to reduce methane emissions from cow burps, the first in the U.S. to do so.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., and KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii, (May 6, 2022 ) — Blue Ocean Barns announced today that the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has authorized commercial use of the company's seaweed-based supplement as a digestive aid for cattle.

Progressive Dairy

Albert Straus, an organic dairy farmer in Marin County, California, made it his intention to look at how he could meet those goals and what it would take on his dairy farm to do just that. He wanted to be progressive, forward-thinking and a part of the solution.