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Mr. Tortorello: Stop the Toxic Insults;They Aren’t Helping

Mar 15, 2012Mary BruneLaws & Regulations, Tips

Crossposted from Making Our Milk Safe (MOMS) blog Reading Michael Tortorello’s recent piece published March 14th in the New York Times (“Is It Safe to Play Yet? Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins”), evoked in me the same reaction the writer...

Join Us: This Saturday is GE-Free Action Day at Walmart!

Mar 15, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

Walmart is behind the curve on GMOs. While Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods have responded to CEH’s surveys asking for their policy on Monsanto risky new, pesticide-laden corn, Walmart has ignored our direct questions about the Monsanto corn (check out the details in...

Tell Walmart: Just Say No to GMO Corn!

Mar 12, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

Monsanto’s new experimental GMO corn contains a toxic pesticide in every bite, intended for the frozen and/or canned corn market. This experimental corn will not be labeled, so consumers cannot know when they may be eating a GMO food. As the nation’s largest...

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...

Watch: Veggies Come to Life in ‘Food Rules’ video

Mar 1, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

With all this action around the GMO labeling debate right now, this video about the dangerous effects of our system of industrial agriculture comes at the right time. Using real veggies to bring the words of Michael Pollan’s ‘Food Rules’ to life,...

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...

Stand Up for GMO Food Labels!

Feb 28, 2012Ali Geering-KlineFood

Urge Congress that GMO food must be labeled. These could be the most important clicks your mouse makes today!

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...