Chuck Benbrook
| Charles M. Benbrook | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 26, 1949 Los Angeles |
| Fields | Agricultural economics |
| Institutions | Washington State University |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Thesis | Farm structural characteristics, management practices, and the environment : an exploratory analysis (1980) |
| Spouse | Karen Lutz Benbrook |
| Children | 5 |
Charles M. "Chuck" Benbrook is an American agricultural economist and former research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University, a position to which he was appointed in 2012. At the CSANR, he directed the "Measure to Manage" program. Benbrook was also the scientific advisor for the Oregon-based nonprofit organization "Organic Center" from 2004 to June 2012. As of September 2015, Benbrook was no longer on the faculty of Washington State University.
Benbrook holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University (1971), as well as an M.A. (1979) and a PhD (1980) in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Benbrook spent 18 years (1979-1997) working in Washington, DC, on agricultural policy and regulation. During this time, he served for two years (1981-1983) as the director of the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also directed the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Agriculture from 1984 to 1990. On a 1993 Frontline program entitled "In Our Children's Food," which focused on a NAS report on pesticides of which Benbrook was the lead author, he warned that the regulatory limits on pesticides were based on adults, even though they are more dangerous to children. He also suggested that he had been fired from the NAS panel for criticizing the pesticide industry.
Benbrook served as chief scientist at the Organic Center, an organic industry funded nonprofit organization, from 2004 until 2012.
Between 2012 and 2015, Benbrook was the research professor at Washington State University for the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources. Here he conducted several studies funded entirely by the organic food industry, who also paid for his trips to Washington where he lobbied for requiring a label on genetically modified organisms.
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