A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.”
Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beans.
The U.S. food retail sector’s use of pesticides on just four crops could result in $219 billion in financial risks between now and 2050.
Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before.
To spur a race to the top, FOE created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest grocery stores on pesticides & pollinator health.
Like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, pesticide companies spend millions on deceitful strategies to keep their hazardous products unregulated.
Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans, and delicious favorites like chocolate and coffee.
Since neonicotinoid insecticides were introduced in the 1990s, U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.
In the spirit of National Pollinator Week, I urge Kroger do its part to celebrate and protect pollinators by committing to eliminate pollinator-toxic pesticides in its conventional supply chain and increase offerings of domestic organic food.
In this peer-reviewed study, we compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four American families for six days on a non-organic diet and six days on a completely organic diet. We found that an organic diet rapidly and dramatically reduced exposure to pesticides in just one week.