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The State of School Lunch in California
The need to make school food healthier, climate-friendly and accessible to all families is more urgent than ever.
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Science and public polling make it clear: New York must restrict bee-killing neonicotinoids
Contact your elected officials to support S699A, in order to protect the health of the environment, pollinators, and New Yorkers.
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Cluck, no! Why choosing chicken over beef won’t save us
Swapping factory-farmed hamburgers for chicken wings will fail to adequately address the climate catastrophe and would actually exacerbate many of the pressing environmental, health, and worker justic…
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Friends of the Earth Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary
Secretary Vilsack’s second tour at US Department of Agriculture must look dramatically different than his first.
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Letter to IFC on Factory Farming
We can significantly reduce agriculture’s impact on climate — but only if we shift production away from industrial animal agriculture and energy intensive monoculture.
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Groups Demand Home Depot, Lowe’s End Sales of Roundup
Lowe’s and Home Depot are well-aware of the research that shows glyphosate is linked to an increased risk of cancer. And yet these dangerous pesticides still line their shelves,
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Food Service Company Aramark Rejects GE Salmon
Top food service company Aramark just announced its commitment not to sell genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The producer of the salmon, AquaBounty Technologies, announced plans to sell its fi…
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Organic School Food Roadmap
This report outlines six key strategies and shares seven brief case studies from diverse school districts that show how school districts with various food service models can successfully source organi…
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Billboard at Kroger HQ Demands Retailer Eliminate Bee-killing Pesticides Used to Grow Food it Sells
A new billboard near the Cincinnati headquarters of Kroger (NYSE: KR) demands that the largest traditional grocery corporation in the U.S. stop using toxic pesticides linked to dramatic declines in po…
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Organic, Plant-Forward, Scratch Cooked School Meals: A California Case Study
As schools across the nation grapple with how to feed kids healthier, more sustainable food on tight budgets, an inspiring story from Northern California provides a roadmap for change.