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Christopher D. Cook
Author, award-winning journalist, consultant

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Christopher is the author of the acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis, available in paperback. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review and many others. His writing has been republished in numerous anthologies. He has also worked as a reporter for The Oakland Tribune and United Press International and as city editor for The San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive.

Selected Publications

Interview with Robert Reich The Progressive, November 2012
"Historically, progressives have time and again saved capitalism from itself, from its own excesses," says the former US Labor Secretary in this in-depth exclusive interview... Story here: Reich_Progressive_Interview_11.2012.pdf
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A Chemical of Concern OnEarth, May 30, 2012
Luis Medellin has lived most of his 25 years in what he calls "a box of trees" -- a trailer park surrounded by orange groves in California’s Central Valley, one of the most prolific agricultural regions in the world. His home lies about 20 feet from where growers regularly spray a pesticide called chlorpyrifos, which slays bugs and worms by attacking the critters’ central nervous systems. Over the years, Medellin has seen the pesticide’s effect on humans, too...
The Wages of Words The Progressive, April 2012 I recently had the strange fortune, born of necessity, to take a small sip from the public welfare trough. As my income and savings sank frightfully low, this January I signed up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. I thus joined America’s burgeoning forty-six-million-plus food stamp rolls, which have become an all-too-ignored economic indicator and an election-year lightning rod...

Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat AlterNet, Feb. 26, 2012
The Shame and Pride of Joining Food Stamp Nation Salon.com, Jan. 27, 2012
The food divide: San Francisco is a city of haves and have-nots when it comes to nutrition San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 29, 2011 (cover story)
Behind the protest signs: The voices of Occupy San Francisco, San Francisco Public Press, Oct. 20, 2011
India's Rural Commons at Odds with Surging Industrialization, Shareable.net, Feb. 2011
Global Commons Idea Navigates Public Private Split, Shareable.net, Jan. 14, 2011
Homebuilder Lennar uses federal taxpayer funds to balance its books, San Francisco Public Press, July 6, 2010
An Inconvenient War, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2010
Love's Labors Lost: KALW Crosscurrents Interview on SEIU, April 2010
Revenue for All, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2011
Banned in Britain: Across the pond, new perils—and possibilities—for press freedom, Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb., 2010
A Tale of Two Zip Codes, Race, Poverty & the Environment, May 2009
SF Budget Cuts Test City's Liberal Image, The Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 2009
A Food Agenda for Obama, The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 26, 2008
San Francisco Needs a New Deal, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 25, 2008
Just Food Nation, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 22, 2008
Farm Bill: Making America Fat and Polluted, One Subsidy at a Time, The Christian Science Monitor, April 23, 2008
Meat Roulette, Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2008
Beyond the Farm Bill, Grist online, MSN.com Daily Green, December 14, 2007
Voting Beyond Our Forks, Whole Life Times, Common Dreams, February 2007
Corn Rush: Ethanol Fever Needs a Reality Check, Pacific News Service, July 13, 2006
Business, As Usual?, The American Prospect (report on the green economy), April, 2006
New Rules to Stem Pollution from Factory Farms Draw Fire, The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 15, 2005

Coal Miners Slaughter, In These Times, January 25, 2006
In a Ditch: America's Blue-collar Temps, The Economist, April 13, 2002
Streetcorner, Incorporated, Mother Jones, March 2002
The Bingo Connection, Mother Jones (award winner), September 2000
High-Tech's Toxic Toll, San Francisco Bay Guardian (cover story, award winner), April 26, 2000
Temps Demand a New Deal, The Nation (cover story), March 27, 2000
Losing Life and Limb on the Job, The Progressive (award winner), February 2000
The New Farm Crisis, In These Times (cover story), June 13, 1999
"Fowl Trouble: In the Nation's Poultry Plants, Brutality to Worker As Well As to Bird," Harper's, August 1999
"Revolt over Conditions at Poultry Plants," The Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 1999
"Plucking Workers: Tyson Looks for a Captive Labor Force," The Progressive (award winner), Aug. 1998
"Texas Move to Privatize State Welfare Programs Draws Fire," The Christian Science Monitor (page-one story), March 20, 1997