In The News - October 08
Is Nothing Sacred?!? - Hershey’s has quietly changed the formulation of it’s recipes and can no longer call many of it’s products ‘chocolate’. Rising commodities costs apparently made real cocoa butter, the qualifier for calling something ‘chocolate’, too expensive for the snackfood giant. But really, Hershey’s is like the WonderBread of chocolate anyway. If you’re going to indulge your chocolate craving, at least do it with a good quality, rich, dark chocolate.
NYC Puts Fast Food Calories on Blast - New York City Health Department launches a new subway ad campaign to show how many calories are really lurking in your fried chicken. The ads, in response to the new rules stating that all fast food restaurants need to post calorie counts on their menus, are clear and to the point. Will this have an impact on people’s food choices? I hope so!
Junk Food Generation - A Consumers International website, pointing the finger, and rightfully so, at multinational food corporations for spending BILLIONS of dollars annually marketing unhealthy junk to children and helping to fuel the obesity epidemic. Junk Food Generation is asking the World Health Organization to ban all junk food advertising to children on a global level.
Turn Off the Tap! - A UK paper exposes an unusual “health and safety” rule imposed by Starbucks… keep the water running in the “dipper” sinks 13 hours a day - to cut down on bacteria! That’s over 6 MILLION gallons of water a day! And those are just the British outlets! There are loads of reasons to hate on Starbucks… now we have one more. tsk tsk tsk.
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