ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Every day, people interact with an unseen world of chemicals, pesticides, antibiotics, and industrial compounds that move through the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we use. These hidden exposures threaten public health, degrade ecosystems, and create serious financial and reputational risks for companies that fail to act responsibly.
“Our goal is to ensure that companies replace harmful chemicals and processes with actions that protect human health and sustain ecological systems. ”
As You Sow’s Environmental Health Program works to end these dangers at their source. We engage major food, agriculture, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies, using shareholder advocacy, science-based dialogue, and legal action to replace harmful substances and practices with solutions that sustain life.
Our current priorities address the systems shaping health at a planetary scale:
+ Regenerative Agriculture
Restoring soil, sequestering carbon, and reducing pesticide use by holding food and beverage companies accountable for measurable, transparent outcomes across their supply chains.
+ Antibiotics & Factory Farms
Challenging companies to curb routine antibiotic use in industrial animal agriculture and to address pollution from waste lagoons that contaminate air and water, protecting both human health and the effectiveness of life-saving medicines.
+ Pesticides & GMOs
Driving corporate transparency and reduction of synthetic pesticide reliance while promoting safer, science-based agricultural innovation.
+ PFAS
Engaging companies to eliminate toxic “forever chemicals” from products and supply chains to protect human health, reduce pollution, and prevent long-term environmental harm.
MAJOR Environmental health Wins
Target
Committed to publicly reporting progress toward eliminating PFAS in its product portfolio.
J.M. Smucker
Agreed to cut pesticide use in its supply chains and expand reporting on regenerative agriculture implementation.
Post Holdings
Established a public regenerative agriculture commitment and began tracking pesticide use data and related impact assessments across suppliers.
Archer
Daniels Midland
Committed to reducing pesticide use across key supply chains and launched a regenerative agriculture pilot for soy sourcing.
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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
PFAs
Antibiotics and
Factory Farms
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PESTICIDES AND GMOs
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