Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | I'm talking about the larger food companies, the food corporations that manufacture the most popular foods found in American grocery stores. These food companies do not want to discuss any links between foods and disease. So they want to avoid talking about nutrition from the get go.
Why is this? It's because the food companies don't want to be held responsible for promoting disease. And much like how the tobacco companies continue to deny that nicotine is addictive, food companies are sticking to a similar myth: that there's no such thing as an unhealthy food. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  CHAPTER 11
Frequently Asked Questions
Since this book was published, millions of people have been exposed to the fact that drugs and surgery are ineffective and cause most diseases, that the food produced by the publicly traded food corporations and fast-food restaurants, which is in effect virtually all the food that most people consume, actually causes illness and disease, and the fact that there are natural non-drug and non-surgical ways to prevent and cure virtually every disease. There are many people who are now being listened to because of the success of this book. | | When you go to your local supermarket and buy name brand products and/or products from major publicly traded food corporations, you are supporting the multinational companies that are hurting local growers and independent farmers, and causing massive amounts of illness and disease, not only in America, but in countries around the world. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  Scientifically based or not, the educational programs of the partnership, the USDA, and food corporations are directed toward a minor source of foodborne illness at the very end of the food chain. If anything, food producers, processors, and servers are the groups most in need of education about food safety. If, for example, meat and poultry producers better understood their role in the safety of the food supply, they might be less hostile and more receptive to the value of Pathogen Reduction: HACCP. | | Large food corporations also promote home food safety. ConAgra, for example, developed a campaign in 2000, "Home Food Safety... It's in Your Hands," in partnership with the American Dietetic Association.15
Although the advice given in such campaigns makes perfect sense, the education alternative hardly appears adequate to deal with problems of food safety, especially when focused exclusively or primarily on consumers. |
Michele Simon
See book keywords and concepts |  One of my biggest frustrations with many nutrition advocates is their unwillingness to address this much bigger (and ultimately more important) picture.
Indeed, if nutrition advocates limit their agendas to extracting minor concessions from large companies—such as the addition of salad—we are unlikely to even get to ask larger questions about what's wrong with the entire food system. Of course, this narrowly defined model of corporate behavior change suits Big Food just fine because it keeps them in the driver's seat and doesn't threaten their overall business model or very existence. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
See book keywords and concepts | | The fastest growing companies within the food industry are fast (processed, precooked) food corporations. Every eight hours, somewhere in the world, a new fast food restaurant is opened.
Hunger of the affluent society is tastefully, conveniently and artificially quenched by the food industry; unfortunately our bodies need real and nutritious food to meet the challenges of modern existence. Contrary to popular belief, eating is not just a recreational activity. Most people don't spend a great deal of time considering the nutritional quality of the foods they consume. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  As I mentioned earlier, most food corporations favor Republicans because members of this party are more likely than Democrats to protect and promote business interests. Dole Food, for example, gave $15,000 in soft money to Democratic committees in 1998 but gave $382,000 to Republican committees. In 1997-1999, food retailers gave nearly $1.1 million to Democrats but more than $3.8 million to Republicans—for example, Coca-Cola (Democrats $215,500 versus Republicans $394,000), the American Meat Institute ($4,000 versus $142,000), and the Grocery Manufacturers of America ($30,000 versus $290,000). | | HANDLING A DIFFICULT SITUATION
From this discussion it should be evident why food corporations envision funding the professional activities of nutritionists as a worthwhile enterprise. It should be equally evident why nutrition professionals welcome such funding and have grown to depend on it. Thus the issue becomes one of principles and safeguards—establishing guidelines for acceptance of industry funding that preserve independence and integrity to the greatest extent possible. | | Lugar's PAC contributions amounted to $1,000 or $2,000 and ranged from $250 (National Confectioners Association) to $5,000 (Archer Daniels Midland)—amounts too small to seem likely to influence anyone, especially compared to the annual income and advertising budgets of food corporations (refer to Table 1). The contributions can add up to substantial amounts, however. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The only ones who will profit from this in the short run are the food corporations. A shift in consciousness is needed to help all of us begin to act in harmony with nature in a respectful and healing way that is good for us and the planet.
If we follow the guideline to eat only whole foods, the irresponsible tampering with our food supply will have little effect on us personally. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts | | Given the environment in which food corporations operate, it is worth considering how companies might continue to please stockholders yet market their products more ethically. As a starting point, companies could stop attacking and undermining regulatory agencies. They could stop marketing directly to children. They could stop touting misleading health benefits for their products, invoking individuality and free will, and complaining about Big Brother government. |
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