Earlier last week the Corn Refiners Association launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign to defend high fructose corn syrup as a “quality” sweetener, in the face of mounting public perception that this cheap, ubiquitous compound has played a not-so-sweet role in making Americans chunky and sick.
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Alice Waters says Obama is paying attention to food & ag issues
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and America’s obesity epidemic is very much on his mind, says Alice Waters, the original SOLE sister and founder of Chez Panisse, in this video from the Aspen Ideas Festival. (Thanks, Cookie Jill!)
“We have to talk about food as a right and not a privilege,” says […]
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