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Viewpoint: EWG’s Dirty Dozen foods and pesticides list scares people away from healthy eating

Dana Dovey | 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) on [April 10] released its 2018 “Dirty Dozen” list to showcase the top pesticide-riddled fruits and vegetables. But some argue ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list highlights ‘meaningless distinctions’ between organic and conventional foods

Steve Savage | 
On April 10, the Environmental Working Group – an NGO funded by big organic marketers – released its annual “Dirty Dozen List” ...
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Strange bedfellows: American Academy of Pediatrics allies with Environmental Working Group, known for anti-science messages

Andrew Porterfield | 
On the subjects of organics and pesticides, the American Academy of Pediatrics finds itself supporting the Environmental Working Group, an ...
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Viewpoint: Unlikely alliance between environmentalists, farmers and big ag companies aims to improve soil health

Brad Fabbri | 
Here are three startling facts about the planet Earth: It currently hosts seven and a half billion people. Its carrying ...
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Should you pay as much as a 300% premium for organic foods? Avoid EWG’s ‘dirty dozen’?

Joanna Khan | 
Have you ever found yourself standing in the supermarket, wondering how to justify forking out $6 per kilo for those ...
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Should we worry about trace pesticides on fruits and vegetables?

Steve Savage | 
An anti-GMO funded study promoted by Vani Hari--Food Babe--that found parts per billion trace residues of the herbicide glyphosate in ...
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USDA report: Pesticide data shows US food supply ‘one of the safest in the world’

Tom Karst | 
More than 20% of food sampled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016 show no detectable pesticides and less ...
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GMO labeling emerges as hot-button issue in organic and conventional food industry fights

Marc Brazeau | 
Editor's note: This article is part three of a three-part series by Marc Brazeau on his 2018 predictions on food, ...
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Stonyfield-Gary Hirshberg fiasco grows over video with young girls spreading misinformation about farming and GMOs

Andrew Porterfield | 
Usually, a video with kids talking is cute, funny, perhaps poignant. However, scientists’ and farmers’ reactions to a promotional video ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO scare tactics show need for scientific literacy

Sierra Zambrano | 
Many of the arguments made by organic supporters and GMO critics aren't supported by science. That combination can have harmful ...
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What foods have pesticide residues? When do the chemical traces pose dangers?

David Warmflash | 
Dosage and length of exposure determines whether a compound actually produces toxic effects and could lead to such diseases as ...
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40 percent of cancer cases linked to lifestyle, obesity; minor impact of chemicals

Hank Campbell | 
Decades ago, when activist groups were promoting every trace chemical they could find as a carcinogen, the American Council on ...
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New York farmer’s sustainability comparison—7 advantages of conventional farming over organic

Tim Durham | 
[Editor’s Note: Tim Durham’s family runs Deer Run Farm on Long Island, NY. He holds a degree in plant medicine ...
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How to resist health scares: Review of Geoffrey Kabat’s ‘Getting Risk Right’

Jon Entine | 
Public health regulations, particularly as regards to chemicals, are often driven by precautionary fears stirred by sloppy reporting sparked by ...
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Scared to Death: Environmental Working Group fails the ‘sound science’ chemicals test

Alex Berezow | 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) uses an authoritative sounding name to peddle scientific half-truths and outright fabrications. Along with Greenpeace ...
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Infographic: Who to trust—and who not to trust—about food and farming

With conflicting claims about scientific topics everywhere on the internet, it’s hard to know who to trust. This is especially ...
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How US NGOs are exploiting Europe’s precautionary chemophobia to ban glyphosate and GMOs

David Zaruk | 
Environmental NGOs have a harder time influencing the evidence-based US regulatory system, so they're taking the fight to Europe — ...
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Worst 10 list: Advocacy groups that put ideology ahead of science on food and farming issues

Andrew Porterfield | 
Which organizations promote ideology over science in the debate over crop biotechnology? The list includes some of the most well-known ...
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Environmental Working Group must turn to sound science to address public fear created by ‘dirty dozen’ list

There are now two peer-reviewed studies from respected academic institutions (Johns Hopkins and Illinois Institute of Technology) with similar conclusions ...
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Environmental Working Group’s ‘dirty’ marketing serves ‘big organic’ donors, not consumers

Steve Savage | 
Environmental Working Group's list of 'chemically soaked' fruits and vegetables is unscientific and promotes the false idea that conventional foods ...
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Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide-in-foods list confuses risk and hazard

Hank Campbell | 
It's that time of the year when the Environmental Working Group produces its "Dirty Dozen List" - foods they believe ...
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Buying organic food to avoid pesticides? You may want to reconsider

Steve Savage | 
Do you seek out organic fruits and vegetables to avoid those on the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list, fearful ...
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Wrong message? Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen ‘pesticide-soaked’ fruits, vegetables to avoid may make us less healthy

Deena Shanker | 
Regardless of whether you’re a parent, an environmentalist, or just a plain old shopper, chances are you’ve gazed out over the supermarket ...
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Will Biotechnology Regulations Squelch Food and Farming Innovation?

Jon Entine | 
The GLP's 18-part 5-week series -- GMO: Beyond the Science -- begins with a look at the regulatory web that ...
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Does Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list discourage Americans from eating fresh produce?

Cara Rosenbloom | 
Editor's note: This article examines the potential influence of the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen list of foods with the ...
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Are poorer consumers avoiding fresh produce because of fear-based organic food marketing?

New peer reviewed research published in Nutrition Today shows fear-based messaging tactics used by activist groups and some organic marketers that invoke safety concerns ...
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Viewpoint: Mark Bittman, ever the clown, still isn’t funny

Henry Miller | 
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Mark Bittman, the former ...
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