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• How Walmart execs fleeced the White House, Grist, January 25, 2011
• Why the Happy Meal is a crime, Grist, January 24, 2011
• Happy Meal Makeover: How a Healthy Food Coalition Defeated a Fast Food Icon, Civil Eats, November 8, 2010
• How PepsiCo is Buying up High-Ranking Experts, AlterNet, August 5, 2010
• Nestle Stoops to New Low, Launches Barge to Peddle Junk Food on Amazon River to Brazil’s Poor, AlterNet, July 8, 2010
• Pepsi Teams up with White House to Whitewash Snacks and Soda, AlterNet, June 2, 2010
• 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
• 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’ SF Gate, 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