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Fox News covers fake blueberries story uncovered by Health Ranger

Thursday, January 27, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: Fox News, journalism, health news

Fox News

(NaturalNews) Last week we released a stunning new Food Investigations video (www.FoodInvestigations.com) showing that many of the blueberries used in popular cereals, muffins, bagels and other foods are faked. Instead of using real blueberries, companies like General Mills use artificial colors, hydrogenated oils and liquid sugars to manufacture small bits that mimic the look of blueberries.

In that story, we revealed how a General Mills' cereal known an Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal contains neither blueberries, nor pomegranates!

You can watch the revealing video here:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7EC06D27B1A945...

Normally, the mainstream media has zero interest in covering actual investigative stories that matter to consumers. But today, Fox News was the first media outlet to actually cover this story in a balanced article that you can read here: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/26/inv...

From reading the story, it is apparent that Fox News contacted General Mills and confirmed our original report, verifying that Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal, for example, contains absolutely no blueberries!

Our investigation also revealed how Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats Blueberry Muffin cereal does not contain blueberries, either. Fox News contacted Kellogg's about the matter, and they said -- get this -- that "The term 'Blueberry Muffin' is used to describe the flavor of some products. All our products are labeled in compliance with applicable laws and regulations."

In other words, as long as there isn't a law against misleading consumers about the fake ingredients in their products, they're going to keep doing it, it seems. NaturalNews encourages consumers to continue boycotting General Mills over their deceptively labeled cereals and fake blueberry ingredients.

Journalism 2.0

When I write stories here on NaturalNews that expose the truths behind the dishonest corporations that rule our world, I never expect these stories to get mentioned in the mainstream media. That's because most of our stories go after the very same corrupt, dishonest corporations that fund most media -- pharmaceutical companies, for example, or processed food manufacturers. Most media outlets simply refuse to publish stories that offend their advertisers. So these stories are usually circulated exclusively through the "alternative press" circles, which include blogs, Facebook pages, tweets, and alternative news sites like Infowars.com or Rense.com.

The mainstream media, for the most part, simply tries to ignore NaturalNews, not realizing that we are slowly taking all their readers! As newspaper circulation drops by the day, NaturalNews readership keeps rising. When we called out the LA Times for writing an article that literally recommended "preventive chemotherapy" for women who have no breast cancer (but who are afraid they might get it one day), the LA Times never even responded. They simply try to pretend that the alternative press doesn't exist, even while their own readership is slowly slipping away.

People prefer to read the truth about matters, not just some corporate spin B.S. that you normally get in popular newspapers. NaturalNews is journalism 2.0, and we do investigations (yes, investigations!) about topics that matter to real people. And we speak directly to our audience.

I write in the first person. Why? Because I don't try to pretend that this is all being said by some unnamed authoritative voice that has no opinions or passions. In journalism school, they tell you to basically "write like a robot" and leave your own experience and passions out of it. I think that's nonsense. People want to hear from real people. Readers want to know not only what you found out, but what you feel and believe, too. Readers want to know the people behind the news: Who's writing that news? What do they really believe? What do they feel passionate about?

That's why here at NaturalNews, I write from the heart, and I share my passions, experience, hopes and concerns with readers every single day. We certainly welcome mainstream coverage of our stories, but we never expect it. And frankly, we don't need it. Independent news organizations like NaturalNews are gaining many of the readers that the mainstream print news juggernauts are losing. There's a reason for that. And I think that reason is pretty simple: People are tired of corporate press releases being repackaged as "news." They're tired of being spoon fed a pack of lies each day. They want to know what's really going on in the world, with GMOs, vaccines, health freedom, nutritional science, natural cures and much more.

It is only the independent news sites like NaturalNews that usually bring people such news. Thank you for your continued support.

No money from evil corporations

Oh, and by the way, for the record I will state right here that NaturalNews *never* accepts sponsorship money from any drug companies, processed food manufacturers, vaccine companies, pesticide manufacturers or anything else that we see as harmful. I would rather stay small and poor than to ever accept sponsorship money from a corporation that we know harms humanity or the planet. You will NEVER see NaturalNews taking sponsorship money from those companies.

And about the Google ads on our articles, we keeping banning every drug ad that shows up there, but the drug companies keep coming up with new URLs to use. So we're doing the best we can to ban those ads as quickly as possible. In the long run, we may need to find a better solution or work with Google to find some way to disallow all pharma ads entirely. I hate it when I open an article on NaturalNews and I see some pharma ad there because Google's ad algorithm selected it. Believe me, we are constantly trying to BAN all those ads! (And we're pretty effective most of the time.)

Be sure to check out the Fox News story about our blueberry discovery here: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/26/inv...

I have to give Fox News kudos for having the courage to actually publish this story. They have done what most other news outlets refuse to do: Print a story that is 100% in the interests of consumers, not the corporate advertisers. If you get a chance, you may wish to share their story or send them a thanks for being willing to even cover it.

Be sure to check out www.FoodInvestigations.com from time to time for more upcoming videos that expose the lies of the food industry.

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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

Click here to read a more detailed bio on Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, at HealthRanger.com.

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