• Nutrition Blog

    HuffPo’s Latest No-No

    In the Huffington Post, a freelance journalist and “brand strategist” offers advice on buying and eating canned tuna which, she says, is “especially relevant…in the age of the coronavirus pand...

  • Health Blog

    Janelle Monáe Mercury Poisoning: Not From Seafood

    Janelle Monáe Mercury Poison: Janelle Monáe Joins the Dubious List of Amateur Celebrity Doctors Dispensing Advice That’s Bad for Your Health Janelle Monáe is a talented actress and musician. But...

  • Nutrition Blog

    The Science-Based Health Advice Environmental Activists Don’t Want You To Hear

    Threat of Mercury: Spreading the Mercury Myth   Quacks, hucksters, and snake-oil salesmen peddling junk science and miracle cures have been around at least as long as the traveling medicine s...

  • Advocacy Blog

    Vegan Fish… Is not Fish

    Vegan Fish… Is Not Fish Vegan, plant-based and vegetarian versions of "meat" products have been popular for some time. The veggie burger, “tofurky,” and meatless “chick’n” strips can be ...

  • Health Blog

    “Safe Catch” tuna is here to save you… from what?

    The Safe Catch tuna brand has stoked unwarranted consumer fear for years by pitching their product as containing “the lowest mercury of any brand.” The implication, without any scientific basis, i...

  • Nutrition Blog

    Marketing the Mercury Myth: This Time on Shark Tank

    For years we’ve been telling you about how the Safe Catch company mantra feeds into the mercury fear-mongering nonsense that anti-tuna activists have been peddling for years.   And we’ve illustr...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Infographic: Greenpeace’s Fundraising Fleet

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  • Health Blog

    Infographic: Wall of Shame – Consumer Reports

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  • Health Blog

    Debunking AOL’s Pregnancy Myth

    We read with interest an article featured on AOL (originally on Mic.com) titled: 5 myths about what pregnant women can and can't eat, debunked. The first myth debunked is that pregnant women can...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    The Environmental Working Group

    The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based environmental lobbying organization, claims its mission is “to see that Americans get straight facts, unfiltered and unspun.” But EWG does...