Charles Margulis, Author at Center for Environmental Health

Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Trouble

May 30, 2012Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

In Born With a Junk Food Deficiency, Martha Rosenberg takes on many of the outrageous practices of the pharmaceutical and food industries. With scandalous food and drug safety lapses in the news nearly every day, it might seem impossible to expose anything very...

Pink Slime Defenders To America: Eat Shit and Die

Apr 4, 2012Charles MargulisFood

By now much of America has learned that they have been unknowingly eating pink slime burgers for many years, and the vehement and widespread consumer revulsion means that the slime burger industry is fighting for its life. The controversy, first exposed by the New...

This Little Piggy Is Not Going To Market

Apr 2, 2012Charles MargulisFood

Following last week’s victory on the end of sales of a cancer-causing strawberry pesticide comes more good news for safe food: as a result of widespread consumer rejection of GMO food, Canadian researchers have been forced to shelve production of their experimental...

Not Monsanto’s Biotech Basics: The ABCs of GMOs

Mar 28, 2012Charles MargulisFood

Preceding the news yesterday that more than 1 million Americans have signed the petition calling on the FDA to label genetically modified (GMO) foods came more unsettling news about the biotech industry’s assault on our children’s minds. A primer on “biotechnology...

Top Ten Reasons NOT to Label GMO Food

Mar 26, 2012Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

Those nauseating food police are at it again. They say that GMO food may be harmful to our health, and they complain that without labels it is almost impossible to determine what harmful effects these untested foods may have. Sure, our children are the first...

Walmart: Behind the Curve on GMO Corn

Mar 12, 2012Charles MargulisFood, Tips

Last fall, biotech giant Monsanto announced its first new genetically modified (GMO) corn variety that would be intended for sale as whole food, in canned and frozen corn products. Previously most GMO corn went for animal feed or into highly processed foods, like corn...

LA Times: Back to the ABC’s on Bee Deaths

Mar 8, 2012Charles MargulisFood

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times ran a review of the import to California farming of healthy bee populations, including an overview of bee colony collapse disorder. While the story aptly covered some of the concerns and issues for food and farming, the Times...

Those Old, Reliable Farm Poisons – Anyone Still Driving an Edsel?

Mar 7, 2012Charles MargulisFood

I’m sure there are offices where people are talking around the water cooler about the latest American Idol or what Snookie is wearing, but not at CEH. Here we tend towards more nerdy topics, like pesticides and health. In one such conversation just a couple of weeks...

Californians Tell New Pesticide Chief: Say No to Methyl Iodide

Feb 29, 2012Charles MargulisFood

Last week, advocates from the Pesticide Action Network brought petitions with more than 60,000 signatures to the desk Brian Leahy, California’s new Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation, calling on him to rescind approval of the highly toxic strawberry...

Our Right to Know: GMO Food Labeling

Feb 28, 2012Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

Earlier this month, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Peter DeFazio circulated a letter to their House and Senate colleagues, calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labels on genetically modified (GMO) food. The letter is open for Senators...