Alliance For Food And Farming

Alliance for Food and Farming: Embrace Healthy Eating, Ignore the “Dirty Dozen” List

April 7, 2022 Alliance for Food and Farming

Despite significant criticism by the scientific and nutrition communities as well as continued declining interest from the media, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) persists in releasing it’s annual “dirty dozen” list. Peer reviewed research has shown that not only is this list scientifically unsupportable, but it also harms public health efforts to increase consumption of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables. …

AFF Farm Tours: The Positive Impact of Sharing Our Stories

September 24, 2021 Alliance for Food and Farming

At the Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), our goal is to provide real and honest information about fruit and vegetable farming so consumers can make the right shopping choices for themselves and their families.  While we would love to further advance this goal by having every curious consumer tour our farms and fields to reassure them about produce safety, that obviously isn’t feasible. …

Health and Nutrition Writers and Bloggers Join AFF’s “Facts Not Fear” Produce Safety Tour

September 20, 2021 The Alliance for Food and Farming

The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF) hosted its fourth “Facts, Not Fear” Produce Safety Media Tour for registered dietitians, health and nutrition writers and bloggers on September 13, 14 and 15 featuring crops in the Pacific Northwest. Tour participants visited pear, cherry, apple and blueberry farms in the Hood River and Beaverton, Oregon areas. …

Although Impact Is Diminished, “Dirty Dozen” List Must Still Be Abandoned

April 12, 2021 Alliance for Food and Farming

While the “dirty dozen” list impact has significantly diminished as more reporters and media outlets recognize it lacks scientific credibility and negatively impacts produce consumption, for the benefit of consumers, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) must discontinue releasing this list. …

Listen to Science and Studies, Not False Claims and Rhetoric

March 17, 2021 Alliance for Food and Farming

Imagine being a farmer or farm worker and working throughout this pandemic to supply a continuous supply of safe and healthy fruits and vegetables only to have an activist group refer to those products as “dirty?” That is exactly what the Environmental Working Group (EWG) does every year when it releases its so-called ‘dirty dozen’ list. …