Blog Entries

• How I Went Hungry at Slow Food Nation, September 1, 2008
• FTC Hands Kids Over to Junk Food Marketers, Defying Global Principles, August 18, 2008
• Beef: Unsafe at any price, even at Whole Foods, August 13, 2008
• It's Official: Big Food Targets Kids, August 7, 2008
• How Gore Should Have Answered the Meat Question, July 20, 2008

Articles

• Alcopops in the United States: state by state battle to end corporate tax fraud, The Globe, 2008

• Reducing Youth Exposure to Alcohol Ads: Targeting Public Transit, Journal of Urban Health, 2008

• Alcohol, Energy Drinks, and Youth: A Dangerous Mix, Marin Institute Report, August 2007

• The Competitive Food Conundrum: Can Government Regulations Improve School Food?, Duke Law Journal, 2007 (with Ellen Fried)

• State School Vending Laws: The Need for a Public Health Approach, Food and Drug Law Journal, 2007 (with Ellen Fried)
• Do trans-fat bans miss the bigger picture?, Salt Lake Tribune, March 2, 2007
• Food Giants' Endless Appetite for Profit, Alternet, January 29, 2007
• Disney's PR Strategy: Keep the Little Consumers Coming, Alternet, October 19, 2006
• Soda Industry Deal with Clinton Foundation Latest PR Stunt, May 3, 2006
• "Suing the Pants Off SpongeBob," Alternet, February 1, 2006
• "This Year, Let's Not Resolve to Lose Weight," Common Dreams, January 6, 2006
• "McDonald's Labeling Scheme: Not Lovin' It," Alternet, November 5, 2005
• "Big Food’s 'Health Education,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2005
• "Big Soda’s Publicity Stunt," Alternet, August 29, 2005
• Advocates Call New School Beverage Policy a PR Stunt, press release, August 17, 2005
• Comments to FTC Regarding Food Marketing to Children (second set), August 12, 2005
• "Government Abandons Children to Big Food," Alternet, July 22, 2005
• "Major Food Companies Hijack FTC Workshop on Advertising to Kids," Ascribe Newswire, July 13, 2005
• "Kids Cereal Maker Flouts Ad Rules," InformedEating, June 25, 2005
• "The Junk Food Lobby Wins Again," Alternet, June 17, 2005
• Comments to FTC Regarding Food Marketing to Children, June 7, 2005
• "MyPyamid Inc," Ascribe Newswire, April 25, 2005
• "Food Giants on the Run," CorpWatch, March 21, 2005
• "Junk Food's Health Crusade," Multinational Monitor, March/April 2005
• "Thirst For Profit," Mothering, March/April 2005
• "Why Uncle Sam Won't Tell You What Not to Eat," San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2005
• “Strange Bedfellows Sell Out Schoolchildren's Health," Ascribe Newswire, September 27, 2004
• "Nutri-washing: Big Food’s Public Relations Scam," San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2004
• “Back To School -- Junk Food Equals Big Profits, Minus Healthy Kids," Pacific News Service, September 3, 2004
• "Washington Wages Super-Size Effort to Weaken WHO Report," Pacific News Service, May 7, 2004
• "Big Food' Lawsuits Can Help Trim America's Waistline," Commentary, Michele Simon, Pacific News Service, April 01, 2004
• "Low Carb Means High Profits for Food Giants," San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2004
• "The Real Reasons to be Mad About Beef," Ascribe Newswire, January 22, 2004
• "Battling the Bulge: Food Fight" (book review) VegNews, November/December 2003
• "Is Junk Food the Next Tobacco?", Oakland Tribune, June 8, 2003
• "Burger King Uncowed", Originally published in the Opinion section of the Sunday, April 14, 2002 edition of the Los Angeles Times
  
• "Behind the Golden Arches: Fast Food Nation" (book review), VegNews, April 2001
  
• "Organic Standards, Round Two," WholeFoods.com, June 2000
• "New Dietary Guidelines Proposed Amidst Controversy," WholeFoods.com, May 2000
• "Hog Factory Farming: Lagoons or Environmental Menace?", WholeFoods.com, July 1999
• "High-Tech Food Fight: The Controversy Surrounding Genetically Engineered Foods," New Age, March/April 1999
• "Dairy Industry Propaganda: Tale of Two Mega-Campaigns," Vegan.com, April 1999.
• "Innovative School Lunch Programs Gaining Success," Vegetarian Journal, January/February 1999, and reprinted on WholeFoods.com, April 1999
• "The Politics of Meat: How Big Business Influences Government Policy and our Food Choices," EarthSave Newsmagazine, Fall 1998
• "Misery on the Menu: The National School Lunch Program," The Animal’s Agenda, September/October 1998.
• "School Lunch Is Mostly Junk: Children Served a Plate of Fat Despite Government Dietary Guidelines," Pacific News Service, August 1998
•  "Veggie Libelous: Free Speech at Stake in Oprah Winfrey Trial," Knight Ridder Newspapers, January 1998