Ellen Kunes
Director of Health and Food Content, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
Ellen Kunes is director of health and food content for Consumer Reports, where she was editor of award-winning food safety and sustainability stories such as “The High Cost of Cheap Chicken,” “Meat on Drugs,” “How Safe is Your Shrimp?,” “What You Need to Know about GMO Labeling,” and “Eat the Peach, Not the Pesticide.” A food editor and writer for 25 years, Kunes was previously editor in chief of Redbook and Health magazines and editorial director of Health.com, founding editor in chief of O, The Oprah magazine, and oversaw the food departments at McCall’s and Redbook magazines. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling book series, The CarbLover’s Diet. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)
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Meat production requires far more water, grain, land, and fossil fuel than anything else we eat – for example, one pound of beef requires 1,800 gallons of water. Given the uph...