Adding my thanks as a parent who wants to see stronger standards and
less junk food industry influence on school food.
Someone sent me a link to the clip below on
junk food industry marketing to children, produced by the Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity (watch it below).
For years, the mantra «there's no such thing as bad food, just a bad diet» has been
the junk food industry's default defence.
The chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, resigned on Friday after being embroiled in allegations of conflict of interest over links with a firm lobbying for
the junk food industry.
The tastings take a lesson from
the junk food industry, which uses «fun» to sell, but the tastings «introduce children to the exquisite flavors of real food to help them to develop their palates, develop a lifelong love of good food and enjoy the benefits of a healthy life.»
Ask the UN to stop partnering with the baby food and
junk food industry.
This new clip from the Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity explains more about how
the junk food industry targets kids (it has a US focus).
The 2013 report, «And Now a Word from Our Sponsors,» also from Eat Drink Politics, found that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in the United States has a serious credibility problem due to its myriad conflicts with
the junk food industry.
The film really pulls no punches aiming to dispel
the junk food industry's strongest talking points: it's all a matter of personal responsibility; we can just exercise our way to health; and we don't need government regulation.
Since Jamie Oliver is actually quite famous for taking on
the junk food industry, not to mention school lunches, «healthy» recipes aren't hard to come by here.
Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University and a leading food politics expert, calls the guidelines «a win for the meat, sugary drink, processed, and
junk food industries.»
There's no science to support that; it's just a big gift to the processed and
junk food industry.
The medical community,
junk food industry and the media have done an incredible job convincing the American public that fats are bad for us.
In NAFTA talks, the U.S. has shown that it's more worried about not hurting
the junk food industry than it is about improving public health.