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 "Back in the food world, we have products like guacamole dip made by kraft foods, which actually contains virtually no avocado. Now, how do you make guacamole dip without avocado? You do that by using hydrogenated oils combined with artificial colors to make it appear green and have the fat texture of avocado, without actually using much avocado. This is a product that the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) describes as "avocado-free guacamole," and is yet another strong example of misdirection by food manufacturers and marketers."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Up until a few years ago, the products of industry giants like kraft foods, Frito-Lay, and General Mills—fixtures in household cupboards and lunch pails across the nation—enjoyed relatively squeaky-clean reputations. Setting their PR machines into overdrive, the few large firms dominating today's increasingly consolidated food market are attempting to burnish their corporate images and protect their bottom lines against the nagging perception that something is amiss."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "Altria Group is the parent company of kraft foods,
Philip Morris International, Philip Morris USA, and Philip Morris Capital Corporation. Altria
Group is also the largest shareholder in the world's second-largest brewer, SABMiller, with a 36 percent economic interest, http://altria.eom/about_altria/l_0_aboutaltriaover.asp. American Council for Fitness and Nutrition. "American Council for Fitness and Nutrition General
Membership List." http://www.acfn.org/about-members/. American Dietetic Association. "Use of Nutritive and Nonnutritive Sweeteners." http://eatright
."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "For instance: ss kraft foods announced that it would abolish in-school marketing to children, change some recipes, and introduce smaller portion sizes. s McDonald's stopped offering supersized fries and soft drinks, unfurled a multiyear Balanced Lifestyles platform featuring national commercials that encourage consumers to be more active, and introduced McDonald's Go Active! Happy Meal, which includes a salad, a fountain drink or water, a Step with It! Stepometer (pedometer), and an informative booklet by fitness expert/exercise physiologist Bob Greene, who is Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "In spring 2005, soon after reading an Associated Press article revealing that new versions of popular kids' breakfast cereals aren't any lower in sugar than the old versions, Jennifer Hardee, a San Diego mother of two, sued kraft foods Co., General Mills Cereals, LLC, and Kellogg USA Inc. Hardee's suit—which has since been settled—sought class action status on behalf of all duped California consumers who bought the new cereals." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "The National Dairy Council,20-22 kraft foods, Inc.,20 the Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center,20 21 the Cattlemen's Beef Board23 and the Cattlemen's Beef Association23 are groups that have frequently funded these studies.
Corporate influence in the academic research world can take many forms, ranging from flagrant abuses of personal power to conflicts of interest, all hidden from public view. This influence does not need to be a crass payoff to researchers to fabricate data. That sort of behavior is rare."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
| "In 2003, kraft foods (which owns Nabisco brands) vowed to reduce portion sizes in the name of public health. But less than a year later, the company had a change of heart and decided instead to give consumers the option of purchasing snacks that are predivided into "100-calorie packs"—whose ostensible purpose is to deter consumption of the entire box in a single sitting. (As if tearing open consecutive packages wouldn't occur to anyone." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
| "Manufacturers that have given at least $100,000 towards the production of these sheets include Coca-Cola, Kellogg, kraft foods, Weight Watchers International, Campbell Soup, National Dairy Council, Nestle USA, General Mills, Monsanto, Nabisco, Procter and Gamble, Ross Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Labs and Uncle Ben's(l)." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) |
| "The American Council for Fitness and Nutrition
Despite its official, objective-sounding name, ACFN is actually backed by Big Food's heaviest hitters, including Coca-Cola and kraft foods, along with several trade associations such as the Association of National Advertisers, GMA, and NRA. In addition to outright lobbying and cheerleading for its member companies, ACFN publishes industry-friendly articles in both the academic press and the general media, usually without revealing its corporate backing.
David vs." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Advergame" for kids on kraft foods Web site must confess that I don't have children of my own. But I still care about what kids eat. And I especially care about how children are being exploited by major food companies. The eating habits that children form early in life predict how they will eat for the rest of their lives, which in turn has a lasting impact on their health. Marketing to kids is big business. Kids are spending more of their own money at younger ages." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
| "The head of this last organization, whose members include the Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo, kraft foods, Cadbury Schweppes, the Snack Food Association, the American Beverage Association (formerly the National Soft
Drink Association), and the Sugar Association, reportedly once stated that soda-and-candy-filled vending machines in schools don't play a role in the obesity crisis. "You can take every vending machine out of schools, and I don't believe you'd touch the obesity issue in children," Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "Here is a partial list of big-ticket sponsors (over $100,000) of the ADA: Kellogg, kraft foods, Weight Watchers International, Campbell Soup, National Dairy Council, Nestle USA, Ross Products Division of Abbott Labs, Sandoz, Coca-Cola, Florida Department of Citrus, General Mills, Monsanto, Nabisco, Procter & Gamble, Uncle Ben's, and Wyeth-Ayerst Labs. The ADA writes product sheets on the foods these companies sell based on information provided by the companies themselves. The ADA has have received funding from Monsanto Life Sciences to produce information on vitamin supplements."- Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "Two examples are RJR Nabisco andAltria Group (which owns Philip Morris and kraft foods). (In 1999 RJR Nabisco split to avoid tobacco boycotts, which also affected their food sales. In 2000 Philip Morris bought Nabisco.) It makes one wonder if it will take the U.S. population and its government as long to realize that the food these companies are feeding us is destroying our health as it did for us to become aware that the cigarettes they were selling us were killing us."- Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) |
 "It is not enough for kraft foods to generate $32 billion in sales in 2004. If that company wants its stock prices to rise, it has to increase sales by a sizable percentage every ninety days. Companies must sell more, and then more, and even more. In this kind of investment economy, weight gain is just collateral damage.
But obesity is not the only collateral result of pressures for corporate growth. Food marketing strategies have changed social patterns. It is now socially acceptable to eat more food, more often, in more places."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Drug companies dominate the list, especially at the highest tiers, but plenty of food companies also participate. kraft foods appears in the second tier, called the "Banting Circle" after Dr. Frederick Banting, the Canadian pioneer in diabetes research. Companies at that level contributed at least $500,000 in 2004." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "But publicly traded companies are required to demonstrate growth every quarter, so it is not enough for kraft foods to sell half a billion dollars worth of Oreos every year; it has to find ways to sell more of them all the time. Line extensions help. In 1990, you could only find six varieties of Oreo cookies in supermarkets; by 2003 there were twenty-seven. Oreos come with chocolate filling, fudge filling, vanilla filling, and colored fillings for holidays; they come flavored with mint and peanut butter, in mini sizes and double sizes, in cup and cone shapes." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "An executive of kraft foods once called to ask me what IBH|M|HHBMM||MM1^B I thougfTi the ethical cutoff point was tor t is one thing to argue that adults marketing to children. Was it acceptable to should be exerting personal target eighteen-year-olds? Fifteen-year-olds? responsibility, but quite another to And so forth down the line. The question demand that of children. suggested that he knew he had an ethical —¦¦¦¦¦¦¦IB"??-??problem." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
| "Bayer Corporation; Kraft Foods; Roche Diagnostics Corporation.
• $250,000+; Abbott Laboratories, Ross Product Division (Glucerna); AstraZeneca; Merisant U.S., Inc. (Equal Sweetener); Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
• $100,000+: Archway Cookies, LLC; Coolbrands International, Inc. (Eskimo Pie); CVS/pharmacy; General Mills, Inc. (Fiber One); Good Neighbor Pharmacy; KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Murray Sugar Free Cookies; Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.; Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Rite Aid Pharmacy; Roche Pharmaceuticals; Schering Plough Healthcare Products, Inc." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "Their action suggested certain store chains try not to tell people which foods are not GE because they might be purchased in preference to those that are genetically altered?2-"** kraft foods, for example, are said to have GE components in many of their products, as do many other large companies.49
Others unquestionably want their customers to be informed. Regular health food stores such as Wild Oats, Whole Foods and Trader Joes are anxious to have their products labeled because their customers are concerned about the possible dangers of chemicals in foods."- Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) |
 "Kraft Foods was sued for knowingly putting dangerous trans fats in its food, most notably Oreos.
• An investigator for an animals rights group captured video showing chickens being kicked, stomped, and thrown against the wall by workers at a supplier for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• Beef used for hamburger patties at fast-food restaurants now contains enormous numbers of cattle which are being herded, fattened, slaughtered, and ground up together. This means meat from a single cow is not used in the hamburger patty; they are pooling bacteria from as many as a thousand different animals."- Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
 "Recently kraft foods patented a method for preparing "natural" cheeses containing 30 percent soy protein. The new method uses enzymes to turn soybeans into soy protein hydrolyzates, basic amino acids that food chemists can fully integrate into the structure of casein. This complex is then added to milk, which is clotted with rennet to form curds and whey. Conventional cheese-making techniques turn the curds into cheese. Without the initial enzyme treatment, the soy would interfere with milk clotting and prevent the formation of a proper curd."- Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.) |
 "September Genetically Engineered Food Alert reports evidence of StarLink gene (not protein) in Taco Bell taco shells, owned by kraft foods. Kraft confirms tests, recalls 2.5 million boxes. Aventis blocks further sales of seeds, announces agreement with government to buy remaining seeds to use for animal feed. Consumers file lawsuit claiming allergic reactions.
October FDA confirms presence of StarLink in taco shells and announces plans to test food samples. Consumer groups identify StarLink in Safeway taco shells; Safeway issues recall."- Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Taco Bell (owned by kraft foods, a division of Philip Morris). Further testing revealed evidence of the StarLink gene in other foods: vegetarian corn dogs, seed corn from conventionally grown plants, seeds from other types of genetically modified corn, corn shipped to Japan, and white as well as yellow corn." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) |
 "Kraft General Foods reorganizes into kraft foods, Inc. In an effort to shore up stock prices, RJR-Nabisco becomes a holding company for R. J. Reynolds (tobacco) and Nabisco Holdings (food); sells 19% of shares in Nabisco Holdings to the public.
1996 Philip Morris buys shares of Brazil's leading chocolate company,
Industrias de Chocolate Lacta, S.A.; kraft foods acquires Taco Bell.
1999 RJR-Nabisco sells its international tobacco business; separates and renames its domestic tobacco (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings) and food businesses (Nabisco Group Holdings)."- Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.) |
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