Sentences with phrase «food lobbies»

Some on the side of food lobbying argue fructose by itself in processed foods isn't enough to fuel an epidemic of obesity, and that eating less is the simplest, best solution.

But with the help of the beverage and snack food lobby, opponents have blocked the efforts.

When the frozen food lobby pushed to keep pizza a school food vegetable (thanks to its tomato paste), the White House pointedly stayed out of the fray.

Those who wrote letters of objection «collected on average, more than twice as much campaign money from food lobbying interests since 2008 as those who did not write letters.»

In case you are wondering what that's about, it is a direct response to powerful food lobbies that have influenced official dietary recommendations for decades.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 — which would require labeling of food containing genetically - modified organisms (GMOs)-- is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.

Tally up my three proposals — legislation, education and inoculation — and you have a very hefty price tag, not to mention the need for enough political will to take on the extremely powerful, well - funded food lobby.

The industrial food lobby is freaking - out over «Chew On This», his new book with Charles Wilson aimed at youngsters, and the fact that his «Fast Food Nation» is being made into a major Hollywood movie with the same title.

Best Food Nation is the food industry's sound - alike website funded by the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Meat Institute, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, National Council of Chain Restaurants, and 14 other food lobbies.

Based off this recent publication, I am disgusted with the manipulation that can go on with food lobbies, researchers, government etc..

Due to the rise of nutritionism, the ideology perpetuated by the FDA and supported by the processed food lobbies, the constituents of whole foods that are vital for healthy functioning of the human body have been reduced to a small handful of nutritional components — macro & micronutrients.

However, I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

An in - depth investigation by Reuters describes the dirty details of the onslaught of Big Food lobbying in the wake of an effort by the federal government to improve voluntary guidelines on food marketing to kids.

And I share your pessimism about the outsize influence of food lobbies.

Did I mention the frozen food lobby?

Even if we ignore the technicality that a tomato is a fruit rather than a vegetable, this is a sad example of lawmakers putting the financial interests of the food lobby ahead of the well - being of kids.

Given the demonstrated, unstoppable power of the food lobby to quash even the most modest anti-obesity efforts over the last few years (and if you haven't read the Reuters article referenced in the foregoing hyperlink, I urge you to do so), I have no reason to believe this bill will be any more successful than the last attempt to change this outmoded rule.

I'm not so hopeful about the food lobbies...

The researchers say that tackling the huge disparity between government subsidies and environmental incentives needs to be the first step in reducing conflict between agriculture and the natural environment, something they say has traditionally been difficult to achieve because of the power behind agri - food lobbies.

Food lobbies, the food pyramid, and US nutrition policy.

Days after receiving several campaign checks from the food lobby last May, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is up for re-election this year, sent a letter raising concerns about the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to develop voluntary guidelines aimed at toning down the marketing of junk food to kids.