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"When you support your local farmer, you not only profit by eating food that is fresh and in season, but you also help reduce the profits of giant food corporations that care more about profits than your health. In addition, seasonal food grown locally is also fresher and thus higher in nutrients and biophotons than food that has been trucked or shipped from far away. Studies have shown that the sooner one eats something after picking it, the higher its nutritional value. It is always best to eat your foods freshly picked ?the fresher, the better." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Therefore, the federal government, influenced of course by big, greedy food corporations, has assumed control over the definition and use of the word organic under the guise of standardization. This is not good news. It means that lobbying efforts by commercial agriculture are well underway to gradually dilute these standards over time. Already, an "organically fed animal" can be fed merely 70% organic feed. In October 2005, Congress voted to weaken organic standards still more by allowing numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids to be included in processed foods labeled "organic." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Campbell points out that not only do medical students receive only about 21 classroom hours of nutritional instruction, but also that this "instruction" is largely influenced by the food corporations themselves! Joining forces to provide the Nutrition in Medicine program and the Medical Nutrition Curriculum Initiative are no less than the Dannon Institute, the Egg Nutrition Board, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Dairy Council, Nestle Clinical Nutrition, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and others." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "They are nearly always funded by food corporations, and the "independent" researchers involved know that their future grant money depends on their coming up with industry-favorable results. Food conglomerate lobbyists court politicians to set government dietary standards in the industry's favor. Executives of these food giants buy influence by contributing to politicians' election campaign funds and offering countless other forms of gratuities. As the documentary Eating points out, "There's a politician in your kitchen, and he's already decided what you'll be eating tonight!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"All in all, are beleaguered food corporations worried about potential lawsuits? "You'd never get them to admit it. Certainly not to our audience," says London-based analyst Jason Streets, formerly with UBS Warburg. "But some corporations have set up internal committees to look at the issue of obesity, or they've been talking with the World Health Organization to learn what they can do about it." Interestingly, some insiders also believe that legal actions or threats of them could eventually harm sales of sugary products. " - 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.)

"Unlike some nutritionists who say that obesity is just the fault of people for eating too much, I say it's just as much due to the sinister actions of the food corporations. These corporations knowingly put ingredients into their foods that defeat biological appetite control mechanisms, thereby programming consumers for repeat purchases and accelerating obesity. This harming of the appetite control mechanism in the human body results in more processed food sales, and that's what makes food companies money. They have every incentive to use ingredients that will induce people to overeat." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Try as they might, the high-tech R&D laboratories of today's rich and powerful food corporations simply cannot improve on Mother Nature. Indeed, whatever "health"-oriented innovations they dream up, the major packaged-food companies must continue—on pain of going out of business—to sell the American public a steady diet of highly processed products full of some combination of fat, sugar, and salt. Such concoctions of laboratory science will continue to be mechanically adulterated and infused with additives and chemicals that impart flavor, extend shelf life, or otherwise "enhance" them." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "By keeping the focus on the independent consumer, CCF is able to deflect criticism of food corporations' products and practices, leaving industry firmly in control of the policy discourse. Us vs. Them One of CCF's favorite strategies is to align the interests of food companies with those of consumers. It portrays these two "allied" groups as the besieged "victims" of government regulators, nonprofits, parents, and other food-industry critics who make up the burgeoning ranks of the "food police." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The point of this exercise is not to accuse food corporations of engaging in an evil conspiracy to make people sick. Rather, it is to illustrate that various economic, political, and social processes are operating beyond the control of most individuals, restricting their access to healthy foods and constraining their ability to make informed dietary choices. While there may be no proverbial smoking gun, for many people, society is essentially arranged such that there might as well be." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"I believed that food corporations only used safe food ingredients, that personal care products were safe to use on your skin, and that diseases like cancer and diabetes were mysterious, complex diseases with no known cure. I also believed that organizations like the American Cancer Society were searching hard for a cure, and when they found it one day, they would give it away for free and rid the world of a terrible disease. All they needed was a little more money. Perhaps these are some of the things you now believe, too. They are certainly what the industry wants us to believe." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Some industry observers insist that when food corporations bombard would-be, unsuspecting customers with sensual, pleasurable images or messages about cereals, fast foods, cookies, candies, chips, ice cream, and other junk foods, they may be to blame because, in a way, they're thwarting people's sense of personal responsibility and choice. In fact, scientists affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom released a study in the Journal of Neuroscience in May 2006, which supports this point of view." - 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.)

"I'm talking about the larger food companies, the food corporations that manufacture the most popular foods found in American grocery stores. These food companies do not want to discuss any links between foods and disease. So they want to avoid talking about nutrition from the get go. Why is this? It's because the food companies don't want to be held responsible for promoting disease. And much like how the tobacco companies continue to deny that nicotine is addictive, food companies are sticking to a similar myth: that there's no such thing as an unhealthy food." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Negative consumer reaction in Europe, Asia, and the United States caused FritoLay, Gerber Baby Food, and Heinz Baby food corporations to reject genetically modified farm products in 1999/2000. The grain giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) apparently didn't want to be "Supermarket to the World" with genetically manipulated crops. ADM and Continental Grain notified grain elevators on September 1, 1999, that they should segregate genetically manipulated and conventional corn and soybeans because of consumer rejection of GMOs in Europe and Asia." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"As discussed in the last chapter, this was right about the time the concept of a low-fat diet being good started being promoted by the government, food corporations, and the pharmaceutical industry. As unfounded as that shift was, it had a major impact on the health of the American people. For the first time since the industrial revolution, the life expectancy of the average American is declining despite all our medical and public health advances.This is a very sobering thought and directly related to the increasing rates of obesity." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"What makes food corporations so intensely interested in the organic business is the pace at which the market for these foods is growing. The overabundance of food in the United States limits the growth of the so-called "conventional" food pro- ducers (those who typically use pesticides and chemical fertilizers) to 1 or 2 percent a year. Organics, in contrast, are booming. Since 1990, sales have increased by about 20 percent annually—a phenomenal rate by industry standards." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "They are made with the cheapest ingredients, advertised with the biggest budgets, and manufactured by some of the largest food corporations in the world. These companies pay slotting fees for that center-aisle space, but make up for that expense in I n the context of the center aisles, sales. You contribute to their income and I "processed" is a code word for that of the store every time you move a foods of low or minimal nutritional product from shelf to shopping cart and pay value?junk foods" according to for it at the cash register, those of us who are less polite." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Large food corporations also promote home food safety. ConAgra, for example, developed a campaign in 2000, "Home Food Safety... It's in Your Hands," in partnership with the American Dietetic Association.15 Although the advice given in such campaigns makes perfect sense, the education alternative hardly appears adequate to deal with problems of food safety, especially when focused exclusively or primarily on consumers." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Scientifically based or not, the educational programs of the partnership, the USDA, and food corporations are directed toward a minor source of foodborne illness at the very end of the food chain. If anything, food producers, processors, and servers are the groups most in need of education about food safety. If, for example, meat and poultry producers better understood their role in the safety of the food supply, they might be less hostile and more receptive to the value of Pathogen Reduction: HACCP." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"When you go to your local supermarket and buy name brand products and/or products from major publicly traded food corporations, you are supporting the multinational companies that are hurting local growers and independent farmers, and causing massive amounts of illness and disease, not only in America, but in countries around the world." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"As illustrated earlier, the highly processed pseudofoods laid out by giant food corporations have contributed enormously to the abysmal standards of health in this and other countries, which has in turn contributed enormously to the burgeoning pharmaceutical companies and medical industry. Indeed, on closer examination, they would appear to be feeding off of one another. Eat our bad food, get indigestion, go to the doctor, take our over-the-counter or prescription antacid, etc. All the while ignoring the original cause." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Even a few mammoth food corporations have jumped on this bandwagon by creating health food divisions within their companies. This is not surprising, given the public's growing awareness and concern with what they consume. Anyone can easily make the transition from eating large amounts of anti-nutrient foods by merely switching the brands of foods they regularly eat to natural food brands. This is the very least that anyone can do for themselves in terms of Eating for Health and is a cinch to do once you have become familiar with what to buy." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "With the help of aggressive advertising by U.S. food corporations, overeating the wrong foods and subsequent malnourishment has become an established problem for other wealthier nations, and is now starting to grow rapidly among the middle class and wealthier segments of poorer nations as well. In both rich and poor countries malnutrition has become an impediment to development. Hunger and obesity on an individual level, increases the risk for chronic and acute dzs-ease, reduces physical fitness and shortens lifespan." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Another marketing tactic involves food corporations developing sponsorships with leading nonprofit organizations by paying for the use of their logos in advertisements. For example, a popular ice cream sandwich company paid the American Diabetes Association to use its logo in ads for its artificially sweetened line of products to give the impression of endorsement by this health-oriented organization. This was done in spite of the fact that these dessert products contain high levels of total and saturated fats, which is a risky choice for diabetics who are prone to obesity and heart disease." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Another similarity with aspartame is the way MSG was allowed onto the market without adequate safety checks and most of the later studies into its health effects have been conducted - as usual - by 'researchers' linked to the food giants. The food corporations that profit massively from MSG say that it's safe. Phew, that's okay, then, you had me worried for a second. I mentioned in an earlier chapter how vaccines contain mercury. Even in small amounts this, yet again, is known to damage DNA and impair its ability to repair itself." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

"One of my biggest frustrations with many nutrition advocates is their unwillingness to address this much bigger (and ultimately more important) picture. Indeed, if nutrition advocates limit their agendas to extracting minor concessions from large companies—such as the addition of salad—we are unlikely to even get to ask larger questions about what's wrong with the entire food system. Of course, this narrowly defined model of corporate behavior change suits Big Food just fine because it keeps them in the driver's seat and doesn't threaten their overall business model or very existence." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER 11 Frequently Asked Questions Since this book was published, millions of people have been exposed to the fact that drugs and surgery are ineffective and cause most diseases, that the food produced by the publicly traded food corporations and fast-food restaurants, which is in effect virtually all the food that most people consume, actually causes illness and disease, and the fact that there are natural non-drug and non-surgical ways to prevent and cure virtually every disease. There are many people who are now being listened to because of the success of this book." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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