Ken Cook
Ken Cook is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture, U.S. food and farm policy, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and federal pesticide and chemicals policy, and children’s environmental health, among other issues.
Cook is a sought-after public speaker on these and other environmental issues and is frequently cited for the outsize impact that his and EWG’s work have had on policy debates in Washington and in state and local governments across the country.
Cook testifies regularly before Congressional committees and has given well received talks at a variety of venues including the White House, South by Southwest (SXSW), TEDx Manhattan and a number of other conferences and universities.
He has addressed food, agriculture and toxics policy in countless media interviews, including with 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX Business News, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle.
