Save Organic Suppliers (SOS) Earth/Japan is a newly formed international charitable non-profit effort to bring attention, aid and ongoing support to families, farmers, harvesters, producers, distributors and retailers who have dedicated their lives to improving the health of people and the Earth by providing high quality, organic, locally produced, communally supportive, and environmentally sustainable foods and products.

This effort was launched in response to the recent and ongoing disaster in Japan which affected numerous traditional organic food producers including an organic vegetable farmer who committed suicide. Due to the radiation from the crippled nuclear power plant farmers and other organic producers in the affected area may never be able to operate again.  There is also little hope of assistance from the authorities for these producers.  The aim for SOS-Earth/Japan is to acknowledge and provide assistance toward reestablishing the livelihood of those organic producers affected by the disaster through international support.

Current efforts in Japan include promoting the completion of the film "Uncanny Terrain" by filmmakers, Ed. M. Koziarski and Junko Kajino, who are currently in Japan identifying and documenting the struggles of organic farmers in Fukushima affected by the radiation.  Please support the completion of this film by visiting their website and make a contribution.

The long term aim of SOS Earth is to be a resource for and establish a permanent fund that will provide assistance to organic producers in need worldwide to overcome all threats, natural and man-made, toward establishing a sane planetary food system for the benefit of all and our home, planet Earth. The ultimate aim of SOS Earth is simple: to make the whole world organic once again as it was not too long ago for the benefit of everyone and every living thing on Earth and by doing so we will:

1. Eliminate the leading cause of pollution worldwide: factory farms and agricultural chemicals
2. Improve the earth's environment through sustainable management
3. Assist in improving the health of people everywhere by promoting a plant-based diet thereby eliminating the need for factory farms and the toxic practices they use
4. Eliminate questionable food technologies such as bio-engineered and genetically modified crops that could potentially create irreversible damage in people and on the planet
5. End global hunger by prioritizing and emphasizing a return to local food production through small, organic, community supported farms
6. Create a global and independent grassroots movement and infrastructure to secure, grow, lobby for and maintain a sustainable organic world food supply including:
   • creating free organic seed banks
   • lobbying for government supported subsidies for organic growers to
   • advocating for the implementation of laws that will ban the patenting of bio-engineered life forms and the use of all chemicals
   • work towards eliminating the need for organic certification by making it the default food standard while at the same require all non-organic products to be thoroughly tested before entering the marketplace
   • and, finally, to protect and preserve the sovereign right of any human being to independently grow and cultivate his or her own food, his or her own seeds and to feed him or herself, family and neighbors
7. To address, repair, prevent and eliminate the potential damage from any future disaster, natural or man-made that threatens our organic food supply and preservation of our most precious resource, the Earth, our home.

Once again, our aim is to make the entire world organic, again.

Please join us!

Phiya Kushi

June 8, 2011