Bigger, juicier, saltier, sweeter, crunchier. Most of all, more. The food industry and its nonstop marketing has been tabbed by many experts as a major player in the obesity epidemic. "The result of constant exposure to today's 'eat more' food environment," write Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim in their upcoming book Why Calories Count, "has been to drive people to desire high-calorie foods and to become 'conditioned overeaters.'"
Even as the food industry takes steps seemingly in the right direction--by launching campaigns to bring healthy products to schools, for example--wellness initiatives are often just marketing ploys, contends David Ludwig, a pediatrician and coauthor of a commentary published in 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that raised questions about whether big food companies can be trusted to help combat obesity. Ultimately, he has argued, makers of popular junk foods have an obligation to stockholders to maximize profits, which means encouraging consumers to eat more--not less--of a company's products. Health experts including Ludwig and Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University, both of whom have long histories of tracking the food industry, spoke with U.S. News and highlighted 10 things that junk food makers don't want you to know about their products and how they promote them. Here's a peek behind the curtain:
follow link for list.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-things-food-industry-doesnt-140426465.html
Owning Pigs a Felony in Michigan? Big Ag-Inspired Law Targets Small Farms
By Corey Hill
Alternet, March 29, 2012
Straight to the Source
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The mangalitsa pig is different than other pigs. For one thing, it's covered in thick wool, like a sheep. It's got upright ears, and a flat tail. The farmers at Michigan's Baker's Green Acres are fond of the pig. The thick fur protects them from harsh Michigan winters, and their status as a 'lard' pig means that customers prize their marbled meat. They grunt, they eat, and they care for their young just like any other domesticated swine. In short, they're just regular pigs -- that happen to have black fur.
To Michigan's Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the black-furred pigs are a threat that must be eliminated. A law passed in 2010, set to go into effect on April 1, 2012, outlaws the mangalitsa, and many other pigs that don't fall within their guidelines:
"Possession of the following live species, including a hybrid or genetic variant of the species, and/or offspring of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant, is prohibited:
(b) Wild boar, wild hog, wild swine, feral pig, feral hog, feral swine, Old world swine, razorback, eurasian wild boar, Russian wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus). This subsection does not and is not intended to affect sus domestica involved in domestic hog production."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25148.cfm
wow, that is interesting about the pigs.. do they really think that "domestic hog" let loose in the wild, can't thrive.. I am assuming (and its a big ASSUME) that the reason for this is that in a number of places in both USA and in Canada, that the wild boars have gotten out and are thriving..
I know in alberta not far from mom's place, that wild boar got and are breeding and that she was talking that last fall, you get hunting tags for them to control the population..
http://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/
There is a guy in thunder Bay who breed boars.
I just saw on the new last night our wonderful Mr Harper giving away our marketing broads to USA and Mexico, for there next watering down of our food system., so the USA can dump there cheep milk,eggs beef and pork here. And of course the milk in the USA can inject bht or is it bth, any how the shit they inject into cow to make them produce more mike, band in Canada because it give you cancer.
I heard that as well, I don't know how they will deal with the milk issue, given that the growth hormones are band for use in canada, If the milk tests postive for it, and it would given how much its used in the states, I think you will see it be turned away or the only other choice I see if that they are going to go to labels and give the "peaple" the choice of buy cheaper milk with it, or pay more for milk without it..
Makes me all the more happy that I have my own cow! and my milking sheep..
http://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/
It is already coming into Canada, they get around the fresh mike laws buy putting the milk into other products that contain milk ingredients. and I do believe one of them is ice cream and items with powered milk in them.
And they wont let us make a choice to knowingly purchase farm fresh milk. Let's chemicalize the stuff we drink and avoid the real thing with all of its benifets because big business tells us it's safe. We raise milk goats and I was raised on fresh cows milk we got from a friend when our cow got sick. Guess I shouldn't be alive, at least according to "Health Canada" after all we used something called common sence. As for Harper giving away the marketing boards, we are the 51st state, or will be when the various levels of gov't are through. Just another reason to become more self-reliant.
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