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Pesticide Hacks Attack Popular Shopper’s Guide
Since the Environmental Working Group released its 2011 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce earlier this year, apologists for the pesticide industry and conventional agribusiness have attacked it...
Chemical ag's flyboys often miss the mark
"I came out of a sound sleep and honestly our entire house was shaking, and I said, 'What is that God-awful roar'," said Stephanie Feller, a resident of Sagewater Court in Fossil Lake Ranch (Colorado)...
Shoppers have a problem with pesticides
If the thought of eating weed-killer with your watermelon makes your cringe, you're not alone. Nearly 60 percent of Americans prefer organic over conventional foods.
Much Ado about Giving Consumers What they Want
Over the past year, industrial produce growers and pesticide makers have made much ado about EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which assembles federal testing data on many fruits and...
Protect the Public from Tainted Produce? Outrageous!
The produce industry, fresh off a failed attempt to get the federal government to fuzz up the results of its annual tests for pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, is at it again.
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.
Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminished IQ
In a 2010 meeting between the pesticide industry and the Obama Administration, the pesticide industry revealed its objective that government food testing data (like the USDA pesticide residue data EWG...
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.
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.
Big Ag's "Celery Calculator" Lowballs Pesticide Risk
Big agribusiness is up in arms over The Dirty Dozen, Environmental Working Group's list of fresh fruits and vegetables that are most likely to carry pesticide residues.
School lunch: More fruits & veggies, please!
Whether your child eats the school lunch or your own hand-packed version, there's a chance she might not be getting enough fruits and veggies. U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that...
Want Some Bug-Killer With That?
If you like your fruits and vegetables with pesticides, then you'll be glad to know the conventional produce industry is boasting of a big win with the Obama administration.
Federal grants to promote pesticides? Oh, my.
More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials' award of a $180,000 taxpayer-funded grant to a...
Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign
The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), a California trade association, wants you to have less information about pesticide residues on the fruits and vegetables you buy. That's not too surprising...
Study: Organic Berries Trump Others on Taste, Nutrition and More
Recent government-sponsored tests at more than a dozen California farms found that organic strawberries were tastier and more nutritious than conventionally grown berries. On top of that, the organic...
Mission Organic Made Easy
With its new blog, Mission Organic Made Easy, the Boulder, Colo.-based Organic Center (TOC) delivers on its promise to communicate all the good reasons to eat food devoid of harmful agrichemicals and...
