Not so sweet, not so surprising Scientists at Yale have found the “missing link” between high fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes. Also, the average American gulps down 60 lbs of the stuff every year.
Private inspections a weak defense The NY Times tell the story of a private inspector named Eugene Hatfield and his role in the peanut butter scandal, examining the weaknesses of a system that relies on private inspections for food safety. Hatfield didn’t even know that salmonella could get into peanut butter, so he didn’t test for it!!!
Irradiation is not the answer Our friends at Food & Water Watch want your help convincing Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack not to nominate Mike Osterholm, an irradiation proponent, for Undersecretary of Food Safety. If you’d rather have safe food systems to begin with than possibly contaminated but irradiated food, click on this.
Advocates visit Immokalee Frances Moore Lappe, Slow Food president Josh Viertel, Tom Philpott and other high-profile foodies visited Florida this week, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, who’ve fought hard for fairer worker conditions, are still waiting in spite of big wins — the penny-a-pound raise they’ve won from Burger King, McDonalds and other chains is being withheld from the workers by the state’s growers cooperative, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Carolyn // Mar 6, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Does this mean the Corn Refiners Association will have to stop running those horrible ads that say HFCS is “nutritionally the same as sugar?” I never knew a popsicle could make me so angry.
2 Leslie // Mar 15, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I wish. Google the sweet surprise spoof vids on YouTube, maybe that will at least give you a giggle
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