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The Fox Guarding Israel’s Henhouse: Who’s Really Certifying Your ‘Safe’ Food?
There is a quiet, comforting label that now appears on many of the “bug-free” leafy greens we bring home for Shabbat. It promises that this produce has been grown “according to instructions on the rational use of pesticides” and tested in a laboratory “for the sake of public health.” We…
Guinea Pig State: How Israel Went from COVID ‘Trial Lab’ to an Open-Air Chemical Experiment
There is a comforting, albeit naive, lie we tell ourselves when the State of Israel fails to protect us: It’s just bureaucracy. It’s incompetence. It’s a lack of funding. We tell ourselves this when we discover that the "bug-free" lettuce on our Shabbat tables is saturated with toxic pesticide cocktails.…