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Regenerative Food Labels: What’s Behind the Claim?

To help consumers navigate this crowded landscape, we evaluated how ten labeling programs stack up in terms of phasing out harmful pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, building soil health, verifying…
2025 Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard

To spur a race to the top, Friends of the Earth created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest U.S. grocery stores on pesticides.
Genetically Engineered Wheat: Risks & Concerns

A new variety of genetically engineered (GMO) wheat called HB4 has been approved by the U.S. government, raising serious concerns for the health of the American public, farmers’ livelihoods, and the…
Rethinking No-Till

A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.”
2024 Retailer Scorecard

Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beans.
Economic Risks of Pesticides

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.
New Roundup, New Risks

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.
2023 Bee-Friendly Supermarket Scorecard

To spur a race to the top, FOE created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest grocery stores on pesticides & pollinator health.
Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes: Risks and Concerns

The release of live genetically engineered microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment.
Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide

Like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, pesticide companies spend millions on deceitful strategies to keep their hazardous products unregulated.