Our mission
To protect Australian consumers’ right to safe, health-supporting food and other consumer products, a just food and sustainable farming system, and an environment rich in biodiversity and free of pollutants.
Who we are
OCAA is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organisation — the only organisation in Australia focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the country’s rapidly growing community of conscious consumers of organically and socially responsibly produced food and products.
What we do
OCAA educates and advocates on behalf of organic consumers, engages consumers in marketplace pressure campaigns, and works to advance sound and ethical food and farming policy through grassroots lobbying.
We address food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, fair trade, and environmental sustainability including pesticide use.
Our education campaigns reach consumers and organic businesses through our newsletter, our social media networks, and mainstream and independent news outlets.
A new start
OCAA was founded in 2019 by Australian organics pioneer Dr Tim Marshall, together with a collective of like-minded organic consumers who care about the industry’s integrity.
What we support
- Policy reform — shifting agricultural subsidies away from industrial monoculture and industrial meat and dairy production, toward farmers transitioning to organic and regenerative systems that improve public health, revive local economies, renew biodiversity, reduce pollution and restore climate stability.
- Strong standards — robust Australian organic certification, strictly enforced, requiring that organic farmers maintain or improve the physical, chemical and biological condition of their soil, and that animals raised for food are treated humanely.
- Fair trade and economic justice — job security, fair wages, safe working conditions, and economic independence for farmers and workers.
- A moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops, and on the widespread use of pesticides in food production.
- Corporate accountability — truth and transparency in food labelling and marketing, and full disclosure of health and environmental impacts.
- The phase-out of factory farms — eliminating GMO animal feed, toxic pesticides, and routine antibiotics in meat, poultry and dairy production; ending unfair contracts that put family farms at risk; and ending the inhumane treatment of animals.
- Healthcare with an emphasis on nutrition, disease prevention, and natural health and wellness promotion.