author, award-winning journalist, consultant
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"I have worked with hundreds of journalists, and Chris is quite simply one of the very best…. He has a keen sense of how economics and politics interact to shape the world we live in." - Eric Bates, Rolling Stone
Dedicated to getting your voice heard: Christopher provides a range of consultancy services to individuals and institutions: research reports, manuscript and publication editing, copywriting, grant writing, and tutoring/writing coach services.
Cook has extensive public speaking and radio/TV experience and is available for both, particularly on issues relating to food policy, the Farm Bill, agribusiness, labor, and the environment.
Journalist
Christopher Cook's articles have garnered national honors, including a 1998 Aronson Award, 2000 Project Censored Award, finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and two-time finalist for a Livingston Award. He writes frequently for national magazines and newspapers.
Author "A blistering polemic that details why American agriculture should be weaned from multi-billion dollar government subsidies that undermine Third World farmers, leaving them impoverished while Americans grow obese."
First published in 2004, Christopher Cook's Diet for a Dead Planet was widely acclaimed by mainstream and alternative media. Jim Hightower called it "a powerful and provocative indictment of the food industry."
(now available in paperback from the New Press)
"stands in the classic American tradition of muckraking journalism...packed with information consumers need and policymakers should be acting on."
- The San Diego Union-Tribune
- The Baltimore Sun
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