People generally expressed concern about the food dye
issue as well as other aspects
of our food supply which may be unsafe, and I shared with the group some resources I've recently learned about — first, a link to Natural Candy Store.com (which, coincidentally, I found out about from Jenna herself via Twitter) as well as a mobile phone app created by CSPI to help consumers
sort through additives
on food labels (shared with me by a TLT reader and fellow Houston School Health Advisory
Council Member — thanks, Mike!)
Moore explained that an API from Sunlight would rely
on a scraping process that would involve Sunlight going the extra steps
of «going through the website everyday, and seeing what's new, storing it,
sorting it, categorizing it, and then putting it back out to the public,» while it would be most valuable for the
Council to be the «primary data publisher about what's going
on in their legislative actions, and what's happening with different
issues.»