The cost of our food and personal care items is much more than what we pay at checkout. The true cost is measured by the impact that thousands of chemicals have on our health, the environment and climate, our economy, and many other facets of life. Being an informed and engaged consumer is one of the most powerful ways to turn around our toxic world, and we have some incredible resources at our fingertips to do that, like the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Today, I’m excited to talk with Ken Cook from the EWG about food, conscious consumerism, and our impact on the planet.
Ken Cook is the president and co-founder of the EWG. He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances. Under Cook’s leadership, the EWG has pioneered the use of digital technologies to empower American families with easy-to-use, science-driven tools to help reduce their exposure to potentially harmful ingredients in food, drinking water, cosmetics, and other household products. Capitol Hill’s closely read newspaper, The Hill, regularly lists Cook in its annual roster of Washington’s top lobbyists. It has said Cook’s “influence spans the country” and called EWG “the tip of the green movement’s spear.”
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Property is illegitimate. Working class are wage slaves. Livestock. Revolution is the only moral act
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BUY AMERICAN focus could be used to require government funded food programs to purchase domestically grown fruits and vegetables to encourage farmers to shift from corn and soy to fruit and veg. I don’t know if farmers are ready to shift to shift to organic. Is there a mechanism for farmer stakeholders to participate in planning? I am concerned that for food security purposes, we need to grow more than the current small percent of the fruit and veg. that Americans consume.
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I hear a lot of fruits and vegetables but the US doesn’t need more sugar from fruits, it needs more protein and nutrient dense animal products.
Yeah I heard him say “wean them off of meat” what’s wrong with meat? They were talking about regenerative agriculture, somebody need to do more research
Land is used for corn and sugar beets to create ethanol, land is used to grow cotton, land is used to grow tobacco and even marijuana, none of these are necessary. But why are we growing grass? It’s all superficial