by Anna Lappé, The Nation When Scott Pruitt took over the top spot at the Environmental Protection Agency last year, one of his first formal actions was to reject the recommendation of his agen...
https://annalappe.com/2018/06/hawaii-just-made-brilliant-end-run-around-scott-pruitts-epa/
by Anna Lappé As the daughter of an epidemiologist who took on some of the biggest chemical companies in the world, I had a ringside seat to an industry causing global harm and shirking its re...
https://annalappe.com/2018/02/exposing-toxic-legacies-age-fake-news/
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas...
https://annalappe.com/2015/06/the-billion-dollar-business-to-sell-us-crappy-food/
By Anna Lappé for EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL On March 20, scientists from 11 countries convened by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer released their unani...
REAL FOOD READS WITH AUTHOR TED GENOWAYS In this month’s #realfoodreads selection, The Chain: Farm, Factory and the Fate of our Food, Ted Genoways offers a powerful and important work of inve...
by Anna Lappé for Earth Island Journal In the fall of 1962, a group of chemical companies including Monsanto – at the time the largest producer of the cancer-causing chemical compound, PCB ...
https://annalappe.com/2015/04/monsantos-spin-machine-grinds-on/
by Anna Lappé with the University of California for Slate California’s 90-mile-long Salinas Valley, with its mild climate and rich soil, is known for abundant agriculture. Often called the �...
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America Forty-four years ago my mother, Frances Moore Lappé, published “Diet for a Small Planet,” a book that dared to suggest human beings could survive, even ...
https://annalappe.com/2015/03/the-diet-we-need-for-a-sustainable-planet/
Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post The Feb. 25 Food article “Pastures or feedlots? The big beef conundrum,” ignored a central reason well-managed, grass-finished beef is better for...
Great reporting over at Civil Eats today on an important new study looking at pesticide residues in the diets of people consuming organic and non-organic foods. Its described as the “largest st...
https://annalappe.com/2015/02/important-new-study-on-pesticides-and-benefits-of-organic/