Month: September 2021
Plastic Waste – A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog?
A new report just released by Greenpeace shows how fast-moving consumer goods companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé are fueling the radical expansion of plastic production by ExxonMobil, Dow, and other petrochemical manufacturers. Across the lifecycle of fossil-fueled plastics, the implications are stark – more climate change, harm to human health, environmental injustice, and plastic waste. The growing… Read more »
Testing for PFAS in Fairfield: why transparency matters
If you’ve been following our work here at Defend Our Health, you know that we’ve been deeply involved with the widespread PFAS contamination in Fairfield, ME, since we found out that the past use of municipal and industrial sludge as fertilizer from the 1970s-2000s destroyed Fred Stone’s family dairy farm. From the start, we have joined… Read more »
Back to School – What’s in your dairy?
Dairy products are ubiquitous in kids’ lunchboxes and school meals – milk, yogurt, string cheese, boxed or pre-made mac and cheese — the list goes on. Kids aged 2-11 make up the largest age demographic of dairy consumers, consuming an average of 1.4 cups of milk a day. But as many of us prepare to send our… Read more »