“Smart Choices” labels: misleading at best

I am not shocked by this (via kottke.org), but still disappointed.  I have to believe that somewhere in the FDA is someone who really, truly, actually cares about trying to help Americans choose healthy foods.  But programs like “Smart Choices” really make me wonder.
From William Neuman’s NY Times article:
Mr. Jacobson objected to some of the [...]

The “greenwashing” of SIGG

I really like that term, greenwashing.  It’s the perfect way to describe what went on with SIGG water bottles:
“Last week, SIGG Switzerland, the makers of popular aluminum reusable water bottles — a must-have accessory for the fashionably eco-friendly set –  admitted that prior to August 2008, their bottles contained the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA).”
About about two [...]

Book Review: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
This book’s been out for a couple years now but I only just got around to reading it.  And actually I didn’t read it; I listened to the audio book.
First a note on that: I don’t highly recommend the audio version.  The reader, Scott Brick, had kind [...]

Human hormones + chemicals = bad

Part of me is saying “duh.”  But part of me is glad that we have mounting scientific evidence that I can cite when people accuse me of being paranoid.
According to an article in today’s Strib, chemicals in literally every single product most of us eat or put on or near our body are endocrine disruptors [...]

A no-brainer

My hometown newspaper (and my employer, I work in their advertising dept.), the Star Tribune, had an article this morning about misleading nutritional claims on processed foods. If you weren’t born yesterday, there will be no shockers here. Really, do people not know this stuff? Am I overestimating the intelligence of the [...]

Another post about the Splendid Table?!

Good grief, this is two posts in a row now where I reference something I heard on the Splendid Table. I was just listening to some old podcasts that I hadn’t gotten to yet when I came across her 1/17/09 show about NPR’s Locavore Nation project. This episode features an interview with Barbara [...]