Supersizing Your Chicken, with Arsenic

Dec 22, 2009Charles MargulisFood

Earlier this month, CEH joined a legal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calling on the agency to ban poultry feed additives containing arsenic, a carcinogen associated with other serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and...

Avoiding Fleas and Bug Bombs: Keeping Pesky Pests Away Without Chemicals

Dec 18, 2009Ali Geering-KlineFood

A few years back, a friend of mine accidentally applied a dog-formulated flea pesticide on her cat. The next day she found her cat dead. The cat’s veterinarian determined that the only feasible reason for the cat’s death was the exposure to the more highly...

Is There Life on Mars?

Oct 26, 2009Sean SullivanFood

Two weeks ago we asked you to join us in urging multinational candy conglomerates Hershey’s and Mars to stop using sugar made from untested sugar beets that are genetically engineered to withstand megadoses of pesticides.  We were encouraged to see thousands of CEH...

Ten Reasons NOT to Use Pesticides

May 4, 2009Caroline CoxFood

Did you know that 300 million pounds of cancer-causing pesticides are used in the U.S. each year? Or that more than half of common fruit and vegetables are contaminated with one or more pesticides? At CEH, we work for alternatives to pesticides used on our food,...

Protect Your Right to Know about Artificial Hormones in Milk

Apr 12, 2009Charles MargulisFood

The biotechnology industry wants to take away our right to know when artificial hormones have been used to produce milk. Shouldn’t we have a choice to feed our kids safe food? You can take action today to protect truthful milk labels. For over a decade,...