3 Common Scams the Food Industry Uses to Hide Counterfeit Foods
Anna Hunt – The food industry has a number of tricks up their sleeve to keep their profits high and costs low.
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Big Food Seeks to Exempt Itself from the Freedom of Information Act
Alex Pietrowski – Big Agra and Big Food companies aim to keep their practices secret.
Drone Activist Captures the Truth About Factory Farming
Phillip Schneider – Why is it that when most people look at their plates they don’t see the real story behind what they’re eating?
High Fructose Corn Syrup Now Hidden Under a New Name
Anna Hunt – Food makers are now calling it “fructose syrup” or plainly “fructose”.
Report: These Front Groups Spend Millions to Shape Perception of Food
Infographic – Big Food and Big Agra are using front groups to sway public opinion. Here’s a chart listing these front groups, their investors, and just how much they’re spending on promoting corporate interests.
The Corporate Takeover of All Natural Food
Clarissa A. León, AlterNet Waking Times Walk through your local grocery store these days and you’ll see the words “all natural” emblazoned on a variety of food packages. The label is lucrative, for sure, but in discussing the natural label few have remarked on what’s really at stake — the natural ingredients and the companies …
US Food Manufacturing – Science Based or Reckless?
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Historically, the European Union (EU) has taken a far stricter, more cautious stance with regards to genetically engineered (GE) crops and foods. Not only must GE foods be labeled in the EU, but resistance to growing GE crops is high in general. As reported two years ago, an estimated 75 percent …
6 Crimes Against Nature Perpetrated By The Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Waking Times While many procedures on factory farms are cruel, breeding animals into mutants and violating mother/offspring bonds are truly crimes against nature. The horrors of factory farming are multifold. Treating animals like heads of lettuce—”forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward animals, workers and the environment at the …
Dollar Devaluation: Hard Evidence At Your Local Grocery Store
Jefferey Jaxen, Staff Writer Waking Times There are certain facts that are difficult to face in the world. One is that the currency you have spent you life working for isn’t worth what you thought it was. In reality, it may not even be worth the paper that it’s printed on. The United States paper currency …
13 Ways Foodies Are Changing The Food Industry
Heather Callaghan & Jeffrey Green, Guests Waking Times A major shift in the consciousness of food consumers is forcing the industry into a competitive race to become more natural. The market is telling food producers that they no longer want so-called factory food because of its many harmful effects on health and the environment. And …
Time for Action on Marketing to Kids
Anna Lappe, Small Planet Institute Waking Times On September 18th, the First Lady brought together 100 parent leaders, government agency representatives, researchers, and food and media industry executives–from McDonalds to PepsiCo to Coca-Cola–in the first ever White House Convening on Food Marketing to Children. It was a big deal. Since President Reagan stripped the power …
Butter vs Margarine: The Big Fat Butter Lie
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Is butter bad for you? For decades, the food processing industry has used advertising campaigns to successfully lie about the urgent and proven need to replace “unhealthy” butter with “healthy” margarine. But now we know that this teaching was nothing more than made-up. In the battle of margarine vs butter, you …
5 Things the “Powers-That-Be” Don’t Want You to Know About Monsanto
Gary ‘Z’ McGee – This isn’t about the wealth of an industry or the robustness of our nation’s ability to trade. This is about ecosystems and abundance over ego systems and greed.
Making Money and Living the Lie
Barbara H. Peterson, Guest Writer Waking Times Compromise. That’s what it’s all about, eh? We are taught from early on that the only way to get along is to go along. Meet halfway, in the middle. Don’t be such a stickler. Nothing is so sacred or important that it cannot stand a little compromise. And just …
Front Yard Food Gardens – Defying Conformity and Challenging Authority
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times With urban farming becoming more popular and more common, people are starting to consider their front and back yards as a potential space for growing healthy, organic produce. Yet, front yards may actually be off limits if you’re thinking of starting a food garden. Various city ordinances and, in some …
Global Activism is Taking Down the Toxic Corporate Food Industry
Activism is making a legitimate change in the way that the world eats and thinks. While it is a major victory that these companies are phasing out these ingredients, it is only the beginning of the mass rejuvination of the food supply that needs to take place in order for consumers to experience optimum health.