1 year ago
Buy your food from small farms!!
“The food industry has developed over 100,000 new processed foods since 1990.”
“The food industry also spends money, lots and lots of money, to influence doctors, nutritionists, and the universities that train them. Professional meetings of such experts are ‘overtly sponsored’ by industrial food giants, which also fund travel expenses and honoraria. The also fund the professional journals: the Journal of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition gets money from mega-giants General Foods, Quaker Oats, and Best Foods. Other professional journals are sponsored by Slim-Fast Foods, the Sugar Association, Nestle/Carnation, and Coca-Cola, among others. Writes [Ron] Schmid, ‘It is difficult to imagine why Coca-Cola would give money to a nutrition journal for any reason other than influencing the journal’s content and policies.’ The same could be said of the vast sums that the food giants give to the nutrition departments of universities.”
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“Dean Foods owns White Wave/Silk [Soymilk]. And the main shareholders of Dean Foods are: Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Exxon/Mobile, GE, Home Depot, Microsoft, Pfizer, Philip Morris, and Wal-mart. Litelife [soy products]… is owned by ConAgra. Hain Food Group owns Bearitos, Bread Shop, Celestial Seasonings, Garden of Eatin’, Health Valley, Imagine Foods (Rice Dream), Terra Chips, and Westbrae. And the prime investors in Hain Food Group are mutual funds and holding companies, with the principal stockholders being Citigroup, Energy Nuclear… Exxon/Mobile, weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Monsanto, Philip Morris, and to finish on a positive note, Wal-Mart. Cascadian Farms and Muir Glen are both owned by Small Planet Foods, which is owned by General Mills. And who “owns” General Mills? Alcoa Aluminum, Chevron, Disney, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Nike, Pepsico, Philip Morris, Starbucks, Target Stores, and Texas Instruments (producer of weapons and George W. Bush). What else could I add to that list beside Voldemort? Meanwhile, CocaCola owns Fresh Samantha and Odwalla Juice, while Philip Morris owns Kraft Foods which owns Boca Burgers, and Nestle owns both Arrowhead Water and Poland Spring Water.”
