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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...

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...

Stand Up to Monsanto this Wednesday—March 28th is National GMO Call-In Day

Mar 27, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

This Wednesday we’re calling on Walmart to reject selling Monsanto’s GE sweet corn before farmers start planting it this summer. Walmart cares most about their bottom-line and public image. That’s why we’re collaborating with our allies at Food & Water Watch to...

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...

Victory- Methyl Iodide Pulled from Use on Strawberry Crops!

Mar 21, 2012Caroline CoxEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

“WOW!!! We did it!” Yesterday Arysta Life Sciences announced the “immediate suspension of product sales for all formulations of the fumigant MIDAS® in the United States.” Midas is the brand name for methyl iodide, the hazardous pesticide that...

Would A Coke By Any Other Color Taste As Sweet?

Mar 20, 2012Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Food, Legal Action

I haven’t had a Coke in years. My parents kept a soda-free kitchen, so as a young child I didn’t know what Coke tasted like. Once at a birthday when I was nine or ten I was handed a paper cup full of Coke. I took a sip (expecting it to be a treat that I...

What Are Cleaning Product Manufacturers Trying to Hide?

Mar 19, 2012Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Spring is upon us, and with it spring cleaning. As people across the country begin to break out their mops and buckets, they shouldn’t have to worry about what’s in their cleaning products. Today, New Yorkers—including CEH’s own Eastern States Director Ansje...

Greenwash of the Month: Walmart Fails to Deliver on Sustainability

Mar 19, 2012Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice

The other day, we wrote about how Walmart is Behind the Curve on GMOs. According to a recent report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) shows that safer food is not the only sustainability issue the company is behind on. Remember that whole ‘green’ stint...