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Rate Your Plate Series: Food or Food-ish?
If you're reading this, you probably don't want to eat mystery chemicals. And you'd like to eat food, not food-ish stuff full of synthetics. But which food chemicals are most important to avoid? EWG's...
Getting the True Picture of Cropland Expansion
Critics of EWG research that highlights the runaway conversion of pasture, forest and rangeland to grow row crops like to claim that our findings are contradicted by the Census of Agriculture...
Rate Your Plate Series: Should You Worry About Arsenic in Rice?
EWG scientists have concluded that consumers should shop vigilantly, choosing foods selectively to lower their chances of consuming excessive arsenic. That's why EWG's Food Score flags arsenic as a...
Corn Ethanol Clips Your Car's MPG
According to a new study from the Department of Energy, corn ethanol has helped drive down the energy content in a gallon of gasoline by 3 percent since 1993. And less energy per gallon means fewer...
A Bitter Harvest for Democrats
Many of the Democrats who lost their seats this week voted for the 2014 farm bill – only to see farm groups donate to their Republican opponents.
GE Labeling Won’t Raise Food Prices
Top Ten Food Fights Facing the Obama Administration and Congress
Food policy decisions pending before Congress and the Obama administration could set the table for decades of better eating – or more leftovers.
Rate Your Plate Series: Are low-calorie sweeteners better or worse for you than sugar?
So should consumers choose low-calorie sweeteners or should they opt for sugar?
Agricultural Pollution Drives Up Water Costs
Clean, cheap water from your tap might soon be a thing of the past.
Can’t Handle the Food Truth?
Food industry lobbyists are none too pleased with EWG's new scoring system for foods
Rate Your Plate Series: Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
“Natural flavor” is the fourth most common ingredient listed in EWG's Food Scores, which rates more than 80,000 foods on their degree of nutrition, ingredient concerns and processing concerns. But...
Rate Your Plate Series: Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
“Natural flavor” is the fourth most common ingredient listed in EWG's Food Scores, which rates more than 80,000 foods on their degree of nutrition, ingredient concerns and processing concerns. But...
Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape
As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.
Rate Your Plate Series: EWG's Food Scores Gives Snapshot of America's Food Landscape
As EWG's Food Scores: Rate Your Plate reveals in detail, popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.
Brazilians Don’t Turn Up Their Noses at GE Food
So far, less than 1 percent of Brazilian food sales are “organic” (though sales are growing). And, when experts looked more closely, they found that many Brazilian consumers are more likely to buy...
New GE Crops/Weed Killer Combo Puts Foods At Risk
Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Drink The Water
Policy makers seem to freeze with fear when confronted with terrifying algae. Regulatory and voluntary programs still haven't produced a comprehensive and effective effort to stem nutrient pollution...
A Little Ground Truth on World Food Day
Another Reason To Label Genetically Engineered Food: 2,4-D
Now that government agencies have given the green light to Dow AgroSciences to sell 2,4-D-tolerant, genetically engineered corn and soybeans and OK'd dousing them in Enlist Duo weed killer, there's...
Frac Sand Mining, Coming to You Soon?
The boom in hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas and oil has created a huge demand for silica sand.