Articles by Michele Simon

Michele Simon is a public health lawyer specializing in industry marketing and lobbying tactics. She is the author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. She is grateful to live in Oakland, Calif., within walking distance of a farmers market. You can follow her on Twitter.

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Pesticides are good for you

What happens when an industry front group tries to tell a room full of food experts that pesticides aren't harmful?

Michele Simon Food and Agriculture
Did Walmart buy urban agriculture group's silence?

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, goes the old adage. Will the mega-retailer's recent donation bring the Milwaukee-based Growing Power $1 million closer?

Michele Simon Food and Agriculture
ConAgra sued over 'natural' GMO cooking oils

The class-action lawsuit could have far-ranging implications for the multitude of GMO products creeping onto supermarket shelves while claiming to be "natural."

Michele Simon Food and Agriculture
Safe, organic food too expensive? Eat less meat

Laments over the high cost of sustainably raised meat, poultry, and dairy products miss the bigger picture: Americans eat too much meat, period.

Michele Simon Food and Agriculture