PepsiCo Teams up with White House to Whitewash Worthless Snack and Sodas -...
Food and beverage giant PepsiCo claims to be "investing in a healthier future for people and our planet." But how is that possible when their top-selling products include Mountain Dew and Doritos?...
View ArticleLetter from NGO in Thailand re: Appetite for Profit
At the risk of tooting my own horn, just wanted to share this really nice letter I got from the director of the Health Consumer Protection Program at ChulalongkornUniversity, Bangkok. They had...
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All Aboard for Ice Cream: Nestle Peddling Junk Food on Amazon River to Reach...
I have many things to do today and writing this post was not on my list. But as I was cleaning out my in-box, an especially disgusting news item caught my attention and writing about it is the only way...
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How Did PepsiCo's CEO Infiltrate the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Annual...
Because I tend to focus my attention on news being generated by the major food companies, I don't always pay close attention to the latest scary reports on obesity data. So when the annual report...
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McDonald's Facing Potential Lawsuit for Luring Kids With Happy Meal Toys -...
It was only a matter of time. Last month, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) served McDonald's with a notice of its intent to sue if the fast food giant continues to use toys to...
View ArticleHappy Meal Lawsuit Update: Is McDonald's Playing Games with Nutrition Facts?
Last week I blogged about how the Center for Public Interest (CSPI) is threatening a lawsuit against McDonald's for using toys to promote Happy Meals to kids. Since then, McDonald's has responded, sort...
View ArticleNestle Stoops to New Low, Launches Barge to Peddle Junk Food on the Amazon...
After previously blogging about the Nestle junk food barge, AlterNet asked me to write an article on the topic. How could I say no? Please read the expanded version of this story, this time with plenty...
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Family doctors debate if they should take Coke money, after they took it
In this week's Health Blog, the Wall Street Journal's Katherine Hobson asks readers to chime in on a "debate" among family doctors over the ethics of corporate sponsorship of medicine. But first, the...
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Bangkok Post covers release of Appetite for Profit in Thailand as problem...
OK, so is not one my usual blog posts, but I can't help sharing my excitement. As I wrote about previously, my book has been translated into Thai, with 1,000 copies already distributed.The translation...
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Yale Alumni Magazine covers PepsiCo / Yale School of Medicine partnership...
This past March, I blogged about how soda and snack food giant PepsiCo formed a partnership with the Yale School of Medicine, where I earned my public health degree. The grant included $250,000 for a...
View ArticleMy latest article on AlterNet - how PepsiCo is buying up top-notch health...
My latest article on AlterNet is entitled: "How Junk Food Giant PepsiCo Is Buying Up High-Ranking Experts to Look Like a Leader in Health and Nutrition."And the subhead is just as fun: "Pepsi's...
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Court not buying Coke's defense of its deceptive marketing of vitaminwater as...
My friends at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently scored an important court victory in its lawsuit against Coca-Cola for deceptive marketing of its product vitaminwater. (In...
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Will schools follow new PepsiCo beverage guidelines even if students want...
This past March, soft drink giant PepsiCo announced with much fanfare a new global school policy. The specific guidelines, to take effect by 2012, limit the types of beverages that are to be sold in...
View ArticleVideo of my MSNBC interview on egg recall
Today I was interviewed on the Dylan Ratigan Show about the massive egg recall this week, now at more than half a billion eggs, with at least 1,000 people made ill and counting. The host understood...
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Must-read aricles on egg recall that I did not write
In case you missed it, either because you don't watch the news, don't eat eggs, or like me, both, about 1,500 people have so far been sickened by an outbreak of Salmonella in eggs. A massive recall of...
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Back to school with PepsiCo stealth marketing?
I recently blogged about questions regarding how PepsiCo's voluntary beverage guidelines, announced in March, would be implemented in schools given that contracts are made at the local level. Now with...
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Why is McDonald's listed a resource for Childhood Obesity Awareness Month?
I am not a fan of any sort of "awareness" month as I find the concept trivializes important health issues. Are we only supposed to care about heart disease, diabetes, etc, during that one month of the...
View ArticleTweet Responsibly: Tips for being an effective food activist (or any other...
First of all, I am no Twitter expert. But after about 6 months I've noticed a few things that drive me nuts. Because 140 characters is insufficient to explain, I'm airing my concerns in this longer...
View ArticleWhile we battle over ingredients like HFCS, Big Food is winning the processed...
If there was Twitter for food only, today's trending topic would have been the Big News that the Corn Refiners Association (yes, there are lobbyists for people who refine corn) is asking the Food and...
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Why are healthy food advocates stumping for Pepsi?
As I wrote last month, it can get pretty annoying when your friends harass you to vote for their favorite cause to "win" a grant from the now-ubiquitous Pepsi Refresh Project.But lately I've been...
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Too noisy to save the environment? Frito-Lay responds to SunChips compostable...
These days, many companies--and especially food companies--are falling over each other to prove their green cred to consumers. But given the usual challenges of trying to save the planet while you're...
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One health blogger's change of heart over Pepsi Refresh
My readers know by now that I am not exactly a fan of PepsiCo's mega-marketing campaign disguised as philanthropy known as the Pepsi Refresh Project. As I wrote about previously, the nation's largest...
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Happy Meal Makeover: How a Healthy Food Coalition Defeated a Fast Food Icon
On election day, while most of the nation was distracted with the mid-term election, another vote was taking place in San Francisco City Hall. The Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance to place...
View ArticleLast post on Blogspot - visit me on my new website
Dear readers, I have switched over to blogging with WordPress, which is now integrated into my new and improved website here. There you will find my first post of 2011:Top 5 food policy gains in 2010...
View ArticleNew home for blog: Eat Drink Politics
Dear readers: I have moved all of my blog posts over to my new and improved website, Eat Drink Politics. You can find my blog here.
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