Andrew Gunther

Program Director, Animal Welfare Approved

Industrialized animal agriculture has a lot to answer for when it comes to its impact on animal welfare, the environment, and the livelihood of family farms.

Elizabeth Hitchcock

Public Health Advocate, U.S. PIRG

Last week, I met an extraordinary eighth grader from Henderson, Nevada. Rylee Gustafson may be only 13 years old, but she got excused from school to...

Rebecca Ye

Winner, Stockholm Junior Water Prize, Student, Wash U

In a world where it takes only seconds to locate nearby restaurants, retailers and even friends, why does it take several days to detect deadly E. coli O157:H7 in our food and drinking water?

The Media Consortium

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions on the Border, Pawlenty Screws MN on SexEd by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Women on along U.S.-Mexico bord...

Peter Lehner

Executive Director, NRDC and NRDC Action Fund

Recently, the EPA announced that cement companies will have to clean up high levels of mercury, soot, and smog coming from their plants. Like most EPA efforts, this initiative drew industry ire.

Andrew Gunther

Program Director, Animal Welfare Approved

Before this recall most people would have thought of bison as a safe, healthy meat from animals roaming the ranges of the West. We can now see all too well that this isn't the case.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

U.S. Senator from New York

Believe it or not, in 2010 America, food is still going straight to our kitchens, our school cafeterias and our restaurants without being properly tested. I find that unconscionable.

William Marler

Foodborne illness attorney

If a pathogen that can kill you is in your food -- regardless of the type -- it should be an adulterant. And, as AMI well knows, FDA has jurisdiction over lettuce and already does consider E. coli O145 an adulterant.

William Marler

Foodborne illness attorney

Doesn't the free market require accurate, complete and timely information to allow consumers to know what they believe is safe for they and their families?

William Marler

Foodborne illness attorney

I can understand the desire of farmers and consumers to make up their own minds about drinking raw milk. But both groups need to be fully informed, and the risks need to be fully understood.

Thomas de Zengotita

Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine

Grown-ups in the Republican party (it's relative thing) understand the danger of the Rand Paul candidacy going national. That's why they opposed him in the first place.

Andrew Kimbrell

Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety

Illnesses caused by contaminated foods, which could be prevented with proper government oversight, are instead causing massive hospitalization and the deaths of thousands of Americans.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport Now available via Stitcher Radio's way cool iPhone app! No...

Dr. Elaine Schattner

Writer, physician

A new study reveals that food-borne illnesses from bacteria, parasites and some viruses are ever-present and costly. The report finds that contaminated comestibles run up a bill of more than $100 billion per year.

William Marler

Foodborne illness attorney

Sue, thank you for sponsoring House Bill 54. Perhaps I can host a raw milk and hamburger fundraiser for you out at the new ranch?

Mark Morford

Columnist, SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle; Author, 'The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism', ERYT yoga instructor

I happened to read a charming, albeit nauseating little news item that tried to skulk by unnoticed recently, wherein it was announced that the Hunting...