"You can only ever influence people by connecting with their reality."
Source: Fiona Charles
2010-06-16
BP: Let's fuck up Canada now.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/15/bc-bp-drilling-rocky-mountains.html
They fucked up one area of one country, why now fuck another up one now?
They fucked up one area of one country, why now fuck another up one now?
2010-06-12
More deceit about HFCS, and the quoting of 'experts' in a magazine.
So the good-for-nothing people at a woman's magazine Redbook have an article where they quoted an expert from the ADA talking about HFCS and how it compares to sugar.
I know such magazines are all about spinning their client's products and ads, that there is very little incentive to actually share facts with their readers, but really, you'd think in this day and age of Google, with the truth about all this could be found out very quickly, they'd do a bit more to be less dishonest.
Maybe they count on their readers not following up or caring any more than they should.
That being said -
"The American Dietetic Association, a national association of registered dietitians that works closely with IFIC and hauls in large sums of money advocating for the food industry. Its stated mission is to "improve the health of the public," but with 15 percent of its budget--more than $3 million--coming from food companies and trade groups, it has learned not to bite the hand that feeds it. "They never criticize the food industry," says Joan Gussow, a former head of the nutrition education program at Teachers College at Columbia University. The ADA's website even contains a series of "fact sheets" about various food products, sponsored by the same corporations that make them (Monsanto for biotechnology; Procter & Gamble for olestra; Ajinomoto for MSG; the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers for fats and oils). "
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Dietetic_Association
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q4/dairy.html
In addition to the problems HFCS presents on its own, it's in just about every fucking food product these days. It's impossible to avoid. It's not just in food, but toothpaste, cough syrup, allergy medicine, etc, canned kidney beans, etc.
My issue with this woman's magazine article is that they quote an 'expert' with ties to the restaurant industry who's a spokesperson for a food industry mouthpiece, and they pass her off as credible. Doing so effectively mis-frames the debate of HFCS to become a comparison between it and sugar. Indeed, the whole article is about the comparison between the two. That does an incredible disservice to its readers, which I think borders on willful deceit.
The debate over the dangers of HFCS have nothing to do with whether it's better or worse than sugar.
I know such magazines are all about spinning their client's products and ads, that there is very little incentive to actually share facts with their readers, but really, you'd think in this day and age of Google, with the truth about all this could be found out very quickly, they'd do a bit more to be less dishonest.
Maybe they count on their readers not following up or caring any more than they should.
That being said -
"The American Dietetic Association, a national association of registered dietitians that works closely with IFIC and hauls in large sums of money advocating for the food industry. Its stated mission is to "improve the health of the public," but with 15 percent of its budget--more than $3 million--coming from food companies and trade groups, it has learned not to bite the hand that feeds it. "They never criticize the food industry," says Joan Gussow, a former head of the nutrition education program at Teachers College at Columbia University. The ADA's website even contains a series of "fact sheets" about various food products, sponsored by the same corporations that make them (Monsanto for biotechnology; Procter & Gamble for olestra; Ajinomoto for MSG; the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers for fats and oils). "
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Dietetic_Association
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q4/dairy.html
In addition to the problems HFCS presents on its own, it's in just about every fucking food product these days. It's impossible to avoid. It's not just in food, but toothpaste, cough syrup, allergy medicine, etc, canned kidney beans, etc.
My issue with this woman's magazine article is that they quote an 'expert' with ties to the restaurant industry who's a spokesperson for a food industry mouthpiece, and they pass her off as credible. Doing so effectively mis-frames the debate of HFCS to become a comparison between it and sugar. Indeed, the whole article is about the comparison between the two. That does an incredible disservice to its readers, which I think borders on willful deceit.
The debate over the dangers of HFCS have nothing to do with whether it's better or worse than sugar.
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