Asking for Your Help
By Russell K. King, HHRA Executive Director A few weeks ago, I introduced myself and provided a brief overview of my approach to the HHRA. I let you know there’d come a day when I’d be asking for your help.…
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Credibility in an era of doubt and dishonesty
By Russell K. King, HHRA Executive Director Credibility is vital to any nonprofit organization, but it has even greater value to a nonprofit like the HHRA. Potential donors, grantors, and other supporters need to feel that their gifts will be…
HHRA Earns Highest Rating from Guidestar/Candid
By Russell King, HHRA Executive Director I'm pleased to announce that the HHRA has earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency for 2023 --an achievement earned by fewer than one percent of US-based nonprofits. The Candid Platinum Seal is the…
Greetings from the New Executive Director
By Russell K. King, HHRA Executive Director But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight. Robert Frost’s sentiment rang in my ears as I…
Challenges Ahead in Implementing Policies to Promote Soil Health
By: David R. Montgomery, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Seattle By: Chuck Benbrook, Executive Director, HHRA An international team of scientists published a January 6, 2023 Policy Forum piece in Science entitled "Soil biodiversity needs policy without borders". It…
California’s Bold Plan to Transform Pest Management Systems is Long on Ambition and Light on Details
By: Chuck Benbrook, HHRA ED By: Mark Lipson, HHRA Director of Policy and Regulatory Engagement We welcomed the invitation from California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation for members of the public to offer comments and guidance as the State begins to…
So What is Healthy Food and Why is HHRA Focused on Food Nutritional Quality?
Adults alive today have lived through efforts to address four existential threats to our individual and collective health: smoking, AIDs, Covid, and food and diets that undermine health and promote chronic disease. For the first three threats, our collective response…
Widely used herbicide and free radicals, a toxic combo
Authors: Chuck Benbrook, Robin Mesnage, William Sawyer Too much oxidative stress is bad biology that unites all humankind. It always has and always will. Normal, essential cell functions trigger the release of what is called “reactive oxygen species” (ROS), aka…
HHRA’s Accomplishments in 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, HHRA is happy to report progress on all fronts. We share some highlights from 2022 and describe what we hope to accomplish in 2023-2025. A NEW MISSION AND VISION As a part of our…
Europe is Growing Organic Production, Will the US Follow Suit?
Advocates calling for change in US Ag Inc often struggle to point to successful models through which farming and food chains have evolved toward safer and more sustainable production systems. The surest way to largely eliminate the impacts of prenatal…