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Top Ten Food and Farm Stories of 2011
Advocates of healthy food and farm policy reform have had a lot of success in 2011.
Congress to Kids: Drop Dead
When Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health.
Hackers Unite to Visualize a Healthy Farm Bill
Making sense of the complex farm bill is the first step in bringing much-needed change to America's badly broken food and farm system.
No Coincidence: Camp Lejeune's Contaminated Drinking Water
Nearly 40 Marine veterans diagnosed with male breast cancer today urged President Obama to support legislation in Congress that would provide health care for those made ill by carcinogenic chemicals...
Little Chocolate Donuts
Thirty-four years ago, Saturday Night Live's ad parody, Little Chocolate Donuts, seemed like absurdist comedy. But the iconic John Belushi bit – co-written by current Minnesota Senator Al Franken – is...
Stand Up for REAL Food - Twinkies Aren't Breakfast
Of course you don't serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much - or more - sugar every day in the good ol' American cereal bowl.
Help Stop the Secret Farm Bill
Industrial agriculture's lobbyists and a handful of their powerful Congressional allies have been working overtime to skirt the usual democratic process and write a new five-year farm bill behind...
Lunchroom Bullies
If you wanted an object lesson in how broken food politics are in America, you couldn't do better than to read how farm lobbyists, teamed up with big food companies and malleable friends in both...
Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Planet, Would Ya?
We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental...
Secret Farm Bill Should Focus on Healthy Food and Jobs
A secret farm bill will leave out healthy food and hurt California. Nearly 70 environmental, public health, nutrition, food and farm groups – including EWG – are calling on California's congressional...
Leading Scientists Rely on and Back EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides
Chensheng (Alex) Lu, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology at Harvard School of Public Health has advised parents and caregivers to use the Shopper's Guide to "keep nutritional foods...
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...
Super Committee Me
If the next farm bill gets written without input from healthy food reformers, maybe it's time to occupy the agriculture committees?
Food Companies Take a Page from Tobacco Industry Playbook
Amid an epidemic of childhood obesity, food companies are taking lessons from the tobacco industry on how to target children with advertisements for unhealthy products. The Sensible Food Policy...
Dear Super Committee: What to Cut, What NOT to Cut
Lobbyists for polluting industries and opponents of environmental regulation have been tripping over one another to come up with self-serving lists of targets for the Congressional Super Committee as...
What to Cut, and NOT Cut
Lobbyists for polluting industries and opponents of environmental regulation have been tripping over one another to come up with self-serving lists of targets for the Congressional Super Committee as...
Americans' Views of Industrial Agriculture By the Numbers
The popularity of Oscar-nominated “Food, Inc.” and writers Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman make it clear that consumer interest in food and farming issues is now deeply embedded in the cultural...
Our Soil and Water Needs a Safety Net Too
For just a little while, it looked like a great day for Iowa agriculture and the environment. On Aug. 30, delegates to the Iowa Farm Bureau annual policy conference in Des Moines passed a historic...
Salad bars surge in D.C. schools
Local bok choy and baby spinach, a mesclun mix with mandarin oranges and broccoli florets topped with Asian chicken strips. No, it's not the lunch menu at Chez Panisse, the influential organic...
Keeping You in the Dark on Tap Water Contaminants
More than 300 pollutants contaminate the water Americans drink, an EWG analysis of almost 20 million public records found.
