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March 30, 2016

To Eat Healthy, We Need to Farm Healthy

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

To improve the American diet, we need a sustainable food system that gets healthy, affordable food to all.

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March 25, 2016

Fixing Our Broken Food System

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Our inefficient, chemical-laden system of food production is costing us not only a healthy environment, but also healthy years of our lives.

Chlorpyrifos banned
December 7, 2015

After 15 Years, EPA Finally Moves to Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

By Peter Lehner  /  Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Nearly 15 years have passed since the EPA effectively banned the residential use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which causes brain damage in children, and the EPA has at last proposed to ban most agricultural uses of this toxic pesticide.