Food should be good for you. But some foods aren’t. Pesticides are sprayed on millions of acres every year and some of them end up on your food. Our broken farm subsidy system encourages over production of the wrong food. EWG is pushing for better policy and more sustainable ways of farming that produce healthy food in a healthy environment.
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Next time you buy groceries, look at your shopping bag and imagine eating up to 12 a year – that’s how much invisible plastic pollution EWG estimates an adult could be consuming.
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Raising animals in factory farms threatens our health in many ways: by increasing the risk that our food will be contaminated with pathogens, by making our antibiotics less effective, and by worsening...
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Did you know that popular citrus fruits, like oranges, grapefruit and mandarins, might also come with a dose of hormone-disrupting fungicides?
