Tag: food industry

Here’s a fabulous video that makes an important point: we consumers are on the receiving end of a steady stream of lies about the products we’re buying.  This particular segment exposes one specific form of this: the word “natural” has …

Deceptive Advertising Rampant in the Food Industry Read More »

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According to a report released last week by the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (referred to as IMechE) as much as half of all the food produced worldwide goes uneaten. This already astonishing figure is thrown into even starker relief …

From Guest Blogger Steve Waller: 3 Factors Contributing to Our Colossal Food Waste Read More »

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I’ve often written that Big Energy is on the same path that Big Tobacco chose to take in the mid 20th Century: knowingly causing significant damage to the population’s health and safety, but covering it up as long as possible.  In …

Neither Big Energy Nor Big Food Are Behaving Princely Re: Public Health Read More »

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My wife is recovering from surgery on her shoulder, which gives us plenty of time to watch movies. Last night it was “Food, Inc.” – hardly a “feel-good flick,” but incredibly compelling. Guess what? The food industry is really no …

We Need To Be Hungry for Change in the Food Industry Too Read More »

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Frequent blogger Cameron Atwood writes about the skyrocketing rates of cancer in our world, writing: I want to call readers’ attention to: http://www.gotapex.com/cooking-and-food-subforum/167290-100-years-of-cancer-history.html …where there is an attached attempt to minimize but not dispute the data… …and here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_there_more_cancer_today_than_hundred_years_ago …where …

Do Our Unsustainable Practices in the Food Industry Cause Cancer? Read More »

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