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Poseidon Lost

We thought the sea was infinite and inexhaustible. It is not. Calling for a new vision to save our oceans. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Barry Estabrook
Sowing Justice in the Florida Tomato Fields
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May 16, 2012: A little over a year ago, Lucas Benitez, Greg Asbed, and I committed an act that would surely have gotten us arrested if we had attempted it six months earlier. Traveling in a tired and faded Toyota sedan, we cruised through... read more >
FDA Must Decide This Week on BPA Ban
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March 26, 2012: You almost certainly have BPA in your bloodstream -- nine out of ten Americans do, according to government tests. It’s also in some of the places most likely to affect the most vulnerable among us: studies have found BPA in... read more >
Your Strawberries (and the People Who Grow Them) Are Safer Today
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March 23, 2012: Good riddance to one of the most toxic chemicals in conventional agriculture’s arsenal. Battered by environmentalists and farmworkers and entangled in a lawsuit, Arysta LifeScience, the Japanese company that sells the... read more >
Get Off My Lawn: Lawsuit Aims to Ban Agent Orange Chemical in Weed Killer
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February 23, 2012: Unlike most of my neighbors in the Boston suburb where I once lived, I never used the services of one of those lawn-care companies that come around with tank trucks to spray customers’ yards. I was philosophically opposed to... read more >
Super Weeds and Wonder Worms: GMO Corn’s Legion of Doom
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January 31, 2012: Advocates for genetically modified crops have never relied on logic to advance their cause. And the same holds true for the government officials who give their blessings to new bioengineered plants. Just look at what has... read more >
An Urgency for Sea Urchins
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January 10, 2012: Back in the 1970s, I spent a summer as a mate on a lobster boat off Nova Scotia. With cold weather, choppy seas, and the physical drudgery of heaving around traps, the job entailed many less-than-pleasant duties, but my... read more >
FDA's Misleading Antibiotics Action
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January 5, 2012: “F.D.A. Restricts Use of Antibiotics in Livestock,” read the headlines earlier this week (specifically in the paper of record, the New York Times). At face value, that seems like terrific news -- a complete reversal of the... read more >
Ignoring Decades of Science, FDA Drops Plan to Curb Antibiotics In Livestock
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December 28, 2011: The Food and Drug Administration has done everything in its power to prevent you from reading this post. Just before the holidays, the agency charged with protecting Americans’ health reneged on a 35-year-old pledge to order... read more >
Off the Hook? Good News for Swordfish Fans Leaves Turtles in a Bind
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December 16, 2011: Several years ago, I spent a few days on a boat with a University of Florida sea turtle research team off the Azorean island of Faial. Using a long-handled dip net, the biologists scooped juvenile loggerheads out of the... read more >
Cod Comeback, or Cod Collapse?
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November 29, 2011: Are the embattled populations of Atlantic cod collapsing or making a comeback? The answer varies according to whom you ask, and when you ask them. Fishermen and fisheries officials were taken aback earlier this month by an... read more >
Still in Superbug Denial
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November 16, 2011: No one is going to accuse the Food and Drug Administration of rushing to judgment. In 1999, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA to stop the common practice of feeding perfectly healthy... read more >
FDA, Asleep on the Job? Study Questions Gulf Seafood Safety
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October 12, 2011: You could almost hear the collective Whew! from the Gulf of Mexico fishing industry (and lovers of oyster po’ boys, blackened redfish, and shrimp jambalaya) this spring when Donald Kraemer, deputy director of the Food and... read more >
Barry Estabrook
Barry Estabrook is a two-time winner of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards for food writing. His first, for a Gourmet feature about labor abuses in Florida’s tomato fields, led to his acclaimed book... More
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