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Are Toxic Chemicals In Your Home Your Problem?

Jun 29, 2012Christina MedinaEnvironmental Justice, Food, Laws & Regulations

By Christina Medina and Rebecca Fuoco, crossposted from California Progress Report On Sunday an unusual and quirky red carpet award show in Hollywood brought the normally faceless and intangible issue of chemical exposure and regulation to life. The Third Annual...

Mother Jones: Blinded by “Science” on GMO Food

Jun 19, 2012Charles MargulisFood

Sarah Zhang’s defense of genetically modified (GMO) crops in Mother Jones purports to make the scientific case for the safety and environmental benefits of GMOs. It’s an easier case to make when one focuses solely on one GMO variety, as Zhang does, while ignoring the...

OMG! GMO– The Toxies Nominee That Nature Never Intended

Jun 13, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Laws & Regulations, Tips

GMO’s–it’s the chemical 2012 Toxies nominee that nature never intended. She’s the weird unnatural science project lurking in your food. She is resistant to very toxic pesticides so genetically modified food carries higher toxic residues and...

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...

Stand in Solidarity with Sofia Gatica

May 16, 2012Mary BruneEnvironmental Justice, Food

Sofia Gatica, this year’s recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for South & Central America, is fighting the battle of her life in Argentina against some of the most powerful forces imaginable: corporate greed and desperate poverty. Sofia’s village of...

Ten Reasons Not to Use Pesticides- 2012 Edition

Apr 24, 2012Caroline CoxEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

Have you ever wanted to explain to your neighbor why it would be a good thing if he didn’t use chemicals on his lawn? Or explain to the principal at your child’s school why you’d rather she didn’t ask the custodian to spray for ants? Or remind...

Oakland Veg Week: Recipes So Good, You Won’t Even Miss the Meat!

Apr 17, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

Going vegetarian for a week? It’s really not as hard as it may sound. This year, a whole slew of Oaklanders are taking the dive and going vegetarian for Oakland Veg Week—a city wide, week-long celebration that challenges Oaklanders to pledge to be vegetarian for one...

CEH on Sea Change Radio: The Fight for GMO Transparency

Apr 10, 2012Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice, Food, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Have you ever tasted a strawberry whose DNA was altered to include fish genes? In the United States, genetically modified foods are not generally labeled as such. Last week, CEH’s own Communications and Food Program Director Charles Margulis was a guest on Sea...

Eco-Tips for National Public Health Week: CEH’s Greatest Hits

Apr 6, 2012Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Food, Tips

It’s National Public Health Week, an occasion that brings many CEH issues to the forefront of national attention. Safer products, food, air and water mean better national public health. You’ve seen public health issues in the news recently—from the ‘pinkslime’ in...

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...