Tag: fast food nation
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6/24 Binge & Purge: Food Facts & Fiction
Big brother is watching you – and he has ice cream! // Pepsico marketing mix-up results in lemon-lime Doritos // Experts say breakfast now 6th most important meal of the day // Audio: All-natural food preservative causes all-natural cancer
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6/9 Binge & Purge: More Unhappy Meals
Cadmium-laced McDonald’s Happy Meal glasses recalled // Obama’s USDA to deceive Americans over GM crops // Federal register documents show further deregulation of GMO’s // Haitians suspicious of Monsanto seeds distributed by USAID
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4/29 Binge & Purge: Feeding The Fast Food Nation
SCOTUS hears arguments over genetically modified seed sales // Tests find HIV-like virus in bushmeat // Life insurance companies own $2B of stock in fast food chains
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4/22 Binge & Purge: Pinkwash, Raw Milk & Meat Residues
Komen makes mockery of self with KFC pinkwash campaign // Fake food safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time // US government continues its war on raw milk // ABC grills Vilsack on meat residues // Wholesale prices rise most in 26yrs as food costs explode
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food industry continues to market junk food to children
from natural news: A study conducted by Children Now, a California-based child advocacy group, has been released that indicts the food industry for continuing to market unhealthy food to children. Despite many food companies’ expressed willingness in years prior to self-regulate themselves and shift their advertising efforts towards more healthy fare, little change has been…
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beef products inc. injects your meat with ammonia
safety of beef processing method is questionedfrom nytimes: Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia. The company, Beef Products Inc., had been looking to expand into the hamburger business with…
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study shows hfcs may cause obesity, diabetes & heart disease
from consumerist: A University of California study on human subjects seems to indicate what food activists have long believed: high fructose corn syrup has special qualities which cause humans to pork up like animals in a feed lot. Oh, and it also may help cause life-threatening chronic diseases. The study was small, but frightening… High…
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10/29 binge & purge: unhappy meals
obama supports the food industrial complex& all we get is a lousy white house garden?from organic consumers organization: I’ll admit it. I’m an unabashed fan of the First Lady. I read every article about the White House organic garden and I go to Michele’s farmers’ market every Thursday. I’m a fan and I’m a little…
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video: food inc.
from viddler: In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put…
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10/1 binge & purge: gmo’s & sting-a-roos
video: everything you have to know about dangerous gmo* usda illegally approved gm sugar beets*audio: red lobster introduces new ‘jellyfish sting-a-roos’*
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9/24 binge & purge: farms, feds, beer & burgers
farmwars: amish premise id case to get court hearing*michael pollan: big food vs big insurance*guinness turns 250*video: just ridiculous: mcdonald’s locations on map*
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Fast Food Mind Control: Ice Cream & Burgers Go to Your Head
from reuters: It’s official. That tub of ice-cream really can control your brain and say “eat me.” A U.S. study by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods such ice-cream and burgers heads to the brain. Once there, the fat molecules trigger the brain to send messages to the…
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corporate dietician on corporate tv says to eat corporate food
from huffpo: On The Today Show, Matt Lauer hosted dietitian Elizabeth Ward to discuss how to make “healthy” food choices on a road trip. Virtually the only measure Ward used to evaluate what was healthy was how many calories is in it… She goes onto recommend Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC Grilled Chicken (HuffPost bloggers…
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8/13 binge & purge
the jackasses did it: hr2749, the seizure of the US food supply &production, has passed the house … now what happens?* gm crop imports should be increased, say ministers & farmersfrom times online: More genetically-modified crops used to feed pigs, poultry and dairy cattle could be imported into Britain to meet the demand for animal…
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7/30 binge & purge
corn is the primary ingredient in all american fast food*genetically modified crops back in the uk*gmo scandal: the long-term effects of genetically modified food on humans*food safety’s scorched earth policy*quick vote trips up food bill in house*hr2749: food safety bill comes up short in house*codex threatens health of billions*you’re appointing who, obama? say it’s not…