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“Sugar is sugar is sugar” says Coke to Honest Tea
Sweet talk: In early 2008, Honest Tea sold a minority stake, for $43 million, to Coca-Cola. As this interesting NY Times Small Business article notes, meshing the two companies' sensibilities has not always gone smoothly. In particular, Coke objected to Honest Kids product packaging trumpeting "no high-fructose corn syrup," thinking it made the
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Doctors take a stand on Coca-Cola funding for physicians’ website
Kicking the Coke habit: Nearly 20 doctors have resigned from the American Academy of Family Physicians after it accepted a grant from Coca-Cola to fund nutritional education content on its website. The lead protester pointed out that consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks has been
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Slate declares the high-fructose corn syrup wars over
Devil's candy gone to hell: Daniel Engber boils down all the loud opposition to HFCS into "the three cardinal claims of food politics: Like other villainous ingredients—trans fat and artificial food dye come to mind—high-fructose corn syrup is accused of being at once unhealthy, unnatural, and unappetizing.
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Digest: Monsanto blog launched, more food news from White House
New media = new image?: Monsanto has been a punching bag in the blogosphere for years. We should know. Now, the biotech giant has not only launched an ad campaign aimed at food's "thought leaders," it's digging into its deep pockets to fund a new Facebook presence, Twitter stream, and a blog, Monsanto
Digest – Blogs, etc.: Frogs in the coal mine, what the government’s not telling us
Don't ask, don't tell: Tom Philpott wonders why, after two studies released last month showed detectable levels of mercury in products containing high fructose corn syrup, the FDA by its own admission has no plans to look into the issue. How nice that the agency would rather trust the claims of an industry
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Digest – Features: Urban farmer, Brody on HFCS, swill shill
"If your goat is giving birth, it’s not like you can go to work": Friend o'Ethicurean Twilight Greenaway interviews Novella Carpenter, Oakland's most fearless backyard farmer and soon-to-be-author. (Culinate.com) E
PR debacle for HFCS: Care for some mercury with your oatmeal?
That much-debated sweetener, high-fructose corn syrup, is going to need more than a pricey PR campaign to fix this one. After one set of scientists found mercury — yes, everyone's favorite brain-impairing element — in almost half of commercial
Getting corny: Video responses to the Corn Refiners’ HFCS campaign
Things have been far too serious around here lately, what with all these petitions and dire reports. Fortunately, a writer on Tufts' Comfood list-serv (yes, we poach lots of good ideas from there) has alerted us to a very fun way to waste some time and laugh, too: the anti-high fructose corn syrup ads
Wear your food politics on your chest #2: HFCS nightmares
We got some nice play on BoingBoing a few days ago (thanks Xeni!) for Ali's post on President-Elect Obama's possible food policy, and there's been
Twisted logic from Coke’s [dumbass] exec lets soda off the hook for obesity
Editor's note: This post contains adult language and a dangerous quantity of righteous indignation. So, earlier this week, the top honcho at Coca Cola 11 Comments • Read more »
Crimes against “natural”: FDA helps healthwash HFCS
Conveniently timed with the Corn Refiners Association's multimillion-dollar campaign to sweeten consumers' appetite for high fructose corn syrup, the FDA has reversed its position on whether HFCS can be labeled "natural," reports Food
Industry’s high fructose corn syrup campaign leaves a sour taste
By Debra Eschmeyer 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
Sweet deal: High-fructose corn syrup price vs. consumption
Hansen's Natural Soda is replacing high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with cane sugar in all its soft drinks. Given that most soda advertisements these
Postcard from Orlando I: Your tax dollars at work
I have just returned from three days in Disney theme parks in Orlando. (No snarky jokes please, at least not from those of you who have yet to push a human out of your nether regions only to discover that children now emerge from the womb begging for a trip to Disney World.) Disney is a fascinating place,
Digest – News: Chickens hatching drug-resistant E. coli, clone-tracking proposal, food shortages
Add this one to the list of "our decrepit food factories": This month's issue of Environmental Health Perspectives says that antibiotic use in poultry processing has put workers at risk of contracting drug-resistant
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