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Food Deserts Boast Big Supporters, Funding Fizzles
When was the last time a big city mayor rode into office making “food deserts” one of his campaign issues?
Top 10 Things You Should Know About The Farm Bill
The Environmental Working Group knows that you care about the affordability and availability of healthy food and clean drinking water. So we wanted to make sure you know as much as you can about the...
Turning the Farm Bill into a Healthy Food Bill
It is the only important piece of environmental legislation that Congress is almost certain to enact over the next 18 months. And it's our best chance to fix major flaws in America's badly broken food...
Arsenic Found in... Chicken
Did you think you were eating a carcinogen along with your favorite chicken sandwich last week? Probably not, but a new Food and Drug Administration study has found arsenic in chickens treated with 3...
Improving School Food: Do It Now or Pay the Price Later
Last week (May 30), the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee voted to cripple the nation's budding effort to do something about the woeful quality of school food and make America's...
Best Friends Forever? Produce Growers and Pesticide Makers Deepen their Bond
In nearly two decades of research and advocacy on pesticides and human health, Environmental Working Group has never before seen the produce industry take a high-profile role in debates over pesticide...
Time for USDA to Release New Pesticide Residue Data
On Friday (May 13), Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook blew the whistle on the agri-chemical lobby's months-long effort to get the government to put the industry's spin on the upcoming...
Their Spray Rigs in a Twist
When industry lobbyists want the government to do something the public won't like, they usually go about it quietly. Not so for the produce and pesticide lobby.
Fast Food Follies
Around this time last year the health-conscious crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed between...
Thank You for Spraying
When Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) spoke to the Organic Trade Association's Washington Policy Conference the other day, her talk had two parts: the part where she left the distinct impression that she...
Factory Food: You’re Welcome, America
Coalitions often help bring about real change for the public good. Not this one though.
Toxins in Our Kids' Foods: Where is the FDA?
Guest Post by Laurie David and Robyn O'Brien, EWG Board Member Yesterday, in the face of a just- released report by the National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer...
Eaters Deserve a Place at the Farm Bill Table
Federal nutritional guidelines advise us to eat five-to-nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day. That's not too difficult if you are lucky enough to have access to the fresh and tasty produce...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
To judge by the results of their budget-slashing, all-night tea party a few weeks back, Republicans must have swarmed out of their caucus and onto the floor of the House of Representatives with a...
Women in Agriculture - by the Numbers
Big Ag is big business – and big profits. And when anyone raises questions about the billions of tax dollars lavished on the largest industrial growers of corn, soybeans and other commodity crops or...
Farming the Crowd at TEDx Manhattan’s “Changing the Way We Eat” Conference
Attending the TEDx Manhattan event on the future of food and farming was a day-long drink from a fire hose of cutting-edge ideas, sobering realities and sincere enthusiasm about how America can eat...
Money Talks; Hunger Doesn’t
America is emerging from a financial calamity that claimed millions of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of families struggle every day just to feed their kids. The tenuous economy has increased pressure on...
Big Ag’s “Celery Calculator” Lowballs Pesticide Risk
Big agribusiness hates it when we talk dirty. The Dirty Dozen that is, EWG's list of fresh fruits and vegetables that are most likely to carry pesticide residues.
Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later
New school food standards proposed last week by the Obama administration could nearly double the amount of fruits and vegetables that more than 32 million kids eat every day.
Big Ag to Food Stamp Recipients: Go On a Diet
Last week was a reminder – if I needed it – of just how out of touch the powerful farm lobby is with the rest of America.
