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"Food safety didn't become a national or global problem until the industrialization of the food chain attenuated the relationships between food producers and eaters. That was the story Upton Sinclair told about the Beef Trust in 1906, and it's the story unfolding in China today, where the rapid industrialization of the food system is leading to alarming breakdowns in food safety and integrity. Regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The truth is that the food industry—restaurants, food producers, food packagers, and marketers—with clever strategies and alluring ad campaigns entice us to buy too much food for our needs and encourage us to eat too much of that food in countless situations. Their business success is based on their ability to get you to buy their food. Food marketers have helped make the absurd seem normal. You have been an easy target—unknowing and unarmed and without the strategies necessary when it comes to resisting the lure of buying and eating ever more fattening foods in ever growing amounts." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE e eaters, alas, don't reap nearly as much benefit from V V nutritionism as food producers. Beyond providing a license to eat more of the latest approved foodlike substance, which we surely do appreciate, nutritionism tends to foster a great deal of anxiety around the experience of shopping for food and eating it." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. Only when we participate in a short food chain are we reminded every week that we are indeed part of a food chain and dependent for our health on its peoples and soils and integrity—on its health. "Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food but cocreators of the systems that feed us." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"But the bill was withdrawn after Congressmen were wined and dined by food producers. Refined Sugar Since the early 1900s, sugar consumption in America has increased tremendously. The average American today consumes 130-150 pounds of refined sugar a year. When sugar was rationed during World War II, the rate of diabetes dropped sharply. Refined sugar is largely responsible for the rise in processed carbohydrates that Americans eat. Refined sugar consumption results in raised insulin levels as well as rising rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Author T. S." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They must begin to talk about dismantling the mechanisms of corporate rule—about taking the what, how, and why of food production out of the hands of private, self-interested food producers and giving it to communities and institutions that could democratically determine how to produce and distribute food. Local community-garden and food-security movements are important steps in this direction, as are efforts to contest the "personhood" rights of corporations and global "free-trade" initiatives . . ." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"In fact, journalist Greg Critser, author of the intriguing Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, observes that the lower-priced high-fructose corn syrup has allowed food producers to increase portion sizes without sacrificing profits. Ultimately, he notes, overconsumption of HFCS is "skewing the national metabolism toward fat storage." Now, a growing body of research and articles support that statement." - 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.) "Indeed, in this new climate, an increasing number of experts are contending that large food producers may be liable for health problems that their products could be causing in certain members of the public. Although many people may find these arguments to be on shaky legal grounds, they raise strong ethical questions about the role of corporate responsibility. In fact, if the trend continues, both attorneys and lawmakers may decide to take a closer look (if they haven't already) at the part corporations may play in harming the health of our citizens with their nutrient-deprived food 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.)

"They are networking together to form a community of food producers who want to produce high-quality food and make a decent living doing so. It is a battle to maintain financial dignity, a rural way of life, and provide something of true health value to the American people. It is part of our culture. It is a battle of David versus Goliath, and they need our help. Helping is easy—buy their food. Get to know your local farmers who support the cause of raising and growing food in harmony with nature. It is a lot easier to trust people when you can talk to them." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"But if they aren't warned, then it's the fault of the food producers for not telling the truth about their products and for not giving consumers the information they need to make honest food choices. Let nutritional supplement makers tell the truth Yet another excellent suggestion for transitioning to a healthy nation is to allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their supplements do for your health. This is something the FDA has disallowed for decades." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"From restaurants and food producers to doctors, schools and even parents, no target is too big or small for these sharks who see dollar signs where the rest of us see dinner.17 Once again, no data is offered to back up this absurd claim, just histrionic and vitriolic language—perfectly designed for members of the media who love a good fight. The reporter made no other reference to CCF's involvement in the legislation, suggesting that the Web site attack was all he needed." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"On the other hand are food producers and sellers who want to assure their consumers that their products are safe. The U.S. beef industry itself was worth more than $78 billion in 2005. The beef industry had a vested interest in taking the spotlight off cattle and transferring it to sheep as the potential cause or vectors of BSE. In the middle of all this is the USDA. They are responsible for animal health and also for promotion of animal products, interests often in conflict. So in 1998 they paid the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis to "evaluate the robustness of U.S." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"But according to CREW, CCF lobbies exclusively on behalf of food producers and the restaurant and tobacco industries and is "not remotely charitable."15 Indeed, CREW notes that Rick Berman initially pitched the organization to Philip Morris as a vehicle to "unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat activists." CREW's executive director, Melanie Sloan, said that, "Given all of the violations CCF has committed, a full and fair investigation should result in the organization losing its [tax] exemption." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Instead, wanting to avoid the sugar stigma that could negatively impact sales, many food producers hide the sugars in their products behind a host of chemical synonyms. Take note that products listing any of the following ingredients really do contain sugar: corn sweetener, dextrin, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrates, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, lactose, malt, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, sorbitol, sorghum, sucrose, and xylitol. Although all of these are sugars, fructose does stand apart from the rest. Of all the sugars, fructose causes the least severe insulin reaction." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"That's because, as discussed earlier, ranchers and animal food producers know that nutrition is critical for raising healthy animals. If the human beings of this world don't want this nutrition, let's feed it to the cows, pigs and chickens. That's where much of it goes. So we have a system operating today where we take whole grain foods out of the earth, we dissect them into two piles, and then we take the unhealthiest parts of those grains and feed them to the human population!" - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "The pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, hospitals, surgeons, and food producers all profit from your disease and your sickness. Nobody profits when you get healthy. In fact, the healthier you get, the less money all of those organizations receive. We also talked about the myths of "three balanced meals a day." You can't get optimum nutrition from three balanced meals. And besides, there is no such thing as a balanced meal in the minds of most people, at least from the way they understand foods today." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The food industry is entitled to use a large variety of solvents and chemicals to improve the taste, color, and texture of its products. food producers have free reign over food production, and there is nobody out there that is going to make sure our children don't get fed with another sweet tasting poison. But the common practice of producing food synthetically and making it "healthier" by adding synthetically derived vitamins and minerals is at the root of many health problems afflicting both children and adults in the developed world." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"While the regulations represented progress in terms of unifying the organic requirements and bringing organics closer to the forefront of consumers' minds, they also had negative implications for small farmers and food producers. The standards essentially boiled organics down to the lowest common denominator, making it difficult for farmers who already went above and beyond that level to demonstrate the superiority of their product. Even worse, the prohibitive costs associated with obtaining USDA certification made it impossible for many small organic farmers to label their goods "organic." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Try as hard as I can, I cannot think of a single one (well, organic food producers, maybe). You might think that the health insurance industry would profit from better health, but not necessarily. It costs more to provide preventive services for an entire population than to pay for the treatment of the smaller number of people who become ill ?or so some economists say. Phrasing the question the opposite way yields an even more disheartening answer: What industry or group benefits from public confusion about nutrition and health?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Supermarkets also could demand that food producers grow fruits, vegetables, crops, animals, and farmed fish in ways that protect the health of the environment as well as of people. If stores did this, they would not only be adding value to the foods they sell but would be adding lasting value. That the supermarket, restaurant, and fast-food industries are not doing everything they can to promote short- and long-term health is a sign that these industries are in deep, deep trouble. Yes, everyone eats and the market for food is never going to disappear." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Obtain an Eating Organically Guide - Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance publishes a guide to Michigan's organic and sustainable food producers and related businesses. Visit www.moffa.org. Obtain a Taste the Local Difference Guide - The Michigan Land Use Institute's Entrepreneurial Agriculture Project has a guide to link consumers to farms, grocery stores, restaurants, caterers, and other businesses supporting and featuring local foods. Visit www.localdifference.org." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"This has many food producers and environmentalists concerned. If food production uses more energy than it produces, it is only a matter of time before resources, namely fossil fuels, run dry. And aside from the possibility of a shortage of fossil fuel, its conversion to energy creates pollution. This study, however, is based on standard agriculture, which includes the raising of animals for food—making this type of agriculture up to 30 percent less efficient than plant-based crop production. The latter is still a strain on resources, but a considerably smaller one." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"The real story, the one that the grocery stores never tell you, is that the only products discounted on such grocery card loyalty shopping programs are products that are bad for your health; that is, products that have a very high markup, are heavily promoted and are usually manufactured by brand-name food producers. Let me give you an example. I have a rather unique grocery shopping pattern." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"We eat more because food producers add "value" by supersizing everything without regard to the consequences for our health or our waistline. The French, on the other hand, are accustomed to smaller portions. They don't deprive themselves, but they stay away from the gargantuan portion sizes Americans have become accustomed to. This holds true for foods made at home, items purchased in the supermarket, and portions scooped up at the few "all-you-can-eat" restaurants in France. Slow Food Another thing the French do is eat slow food; that is, they eat food more slowly." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Since 2004, Congress has insisted that the FDA require food producers to say whether any ingredient in a packaged food comes from any of the eight most common foods that cause allergic reactions: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans. If you are unlucky enough to be allergic to any of those foods, you know how frightening—and life threatening-it can be to be confronted with a product with multiple ingredients and not know what is in it. These lists should help, particularly because Congress required the foods to be listed in plain English." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"But it certainly has served its original purpose which was of course, to promote the financial interests of various farmers and food producers in the United States. And that's how this Food Guide Pyramid should be looked upon by intelligent consumers: pure marketing propaganda. Poor soils lead to nutritionally depleted foods There are many other reasons why three balanced meals a day won't provide you with optimum nutrition. One of those reasons is that foods are grown in nutritionally depleted soils." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"By hydrogenating cheap oils like soybean oil (that's the one most commonly used), food producers can create a nice-tasting, creamy, solid oil substance that won't leak out of foods sitting on the shelves. Better yet (from the point of view of food manufacturers), hydrogenated oils have an extended shelf life. Products made with this toxic substance can sit around for months - even years! - without going rancid. Shelf life is extremely important to the economic equation for food production and distribution." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "But by hydrogenating them, food producers transform them into highly toxic substances. As a consumer, you have to be especially wary of the labeling claims on oil-based foods and actually read the ingredients. Just because something is "made with canola oil" doesn't mean it's healthy: Margarine and shortening, furthermore, contain hydrogenated polyunsaturated vegetable oils." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "You see, at this point, the food producers couldn't go back to producing bland, tasteless foods. The American public had gotten used to chemically enhanced foods, and as a result, the food industry had to aggressively defend the only ingredient (MSG) that kept them in business: When MSG was first being added to foods as a taste-enhancing substance, glutamate receptors had not been discovered, and no one knew that excess glutamate could cause brain cell death. The food industry invested millions of dollars in developing the use of MSG and hydrolyzed protein." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "In the early days of MSG usage by food producers, no one suspected that MSG could severely damage the endocrine systems of mammals. In fact, the earliest observation of hypothalamus damage from MSG was, in fact, a fluke: In 1968 Dr. Olney, working out of the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, repeated Dr. Lucas and Newhouse's experiment using the same kind of animals and the same doses of MSG. But what Dr. Olney found was even more shocking." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

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