Organic Activists (page32)

Trees Dies For This?

In her new book “The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains,” syndicated radio show host and author Carol Simontacchi says today’s food is somehow responsible…
PostedAugust 10, 2000 at12:00 am

Lurking In The Shadows

Near the end of a perfectly innocuous article about restaurant food safety, in pops anti-choice activist Sheldon Rampton to push the organic angle. Rampton has made a living by needlessly…
PostedAugust 3, 2000 at12:00 am

Something Incestuous Here

Organic marketer Whole Foods Market Inc. sponsors the "Keep Nature Natural Campaign," which uses junk science and scare tactics to demonize genetically improved food. The "Keep Nature Natural Campaign" is also supported by Chefs Collaborative and its president, celebrity chef Rick Bayless. Bayless teaches at the Culinary Institute of America, which is co-sponsoring a conference with Chefs Collaborative on "purchasing local, seasonal, and organic ingredients." In addition to its other local, seasonal, and organic items, Whole Foods sells Bayless' own line of food products at its stores. Hmmm….
PostedJuly 31, 2000 at12:00 am

The Bottom Line Is Profit

Whole Foods Market, a supporter of the Keep Nature Natural campaign (which seeks to scare the public into rejecting genetically improved food), has begun to stock Cheerios and Jif…
PostedJuly 28, 2000 at12:00 am

We’ve Got A Bridge To Sell You

Organic marketers are taking advantage of anti-choice activists’ scare tactics to make all sorts of claims about the “benefits of eating organic.” One of the most deceptive involves the selling…
PostedJuly 26, 2000 at12:00 am

Why Would You Eat Organic Anyway?

The British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has forced the leading British anti-choice nannies at the Soil Association to retract a leaflet entitled "Five Reasons to Eat Organic." The ASA ruled activists could not substantiate claims that organic food was healthier, consumers could taste the difference, organic was better for the environment, and organic meant healthy, happy animals.
PostedJuly 12, 2000 at12:00 am

Misplaced Sentiment

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gives organic foods a plug, complete with unfounded safety and health claims.
PostedJuly 10, 2000 at12:00 am

Going Organic Can Be Dangerous

Syndicated columnist Sandra Gordon repeats the erroneous “organic is safer” claims in her latest article. She apparently didn’t hear Cargill Chairman Ernest Micek’s speech yesterday, where he pointed out,…
PostedMay 16, 2000 at12:00 am

The $100-A-Plate Debate

Anti-GE-food chefs Charlie Trotter and Rick Bayless take a lickin’ in the Chicago Sun Times for making a personal fortune “serving up $100 plates to the well-heeled,” while blocking a…
PostedMay 16, 2000 at12:00 am

Do You Approve Of The USDA’s New ‘Organic’ Standards?

Pollsters at the food-friendly Economic and Agricultural Trade 2000 website are asking informed consumers if the new USDA organic standards imply an unearned government seal-of-approval on organic rhetoric about safety, nutrition and health. Check ABC's 20/20 story to get the real scoop on organic food.
PostedApril 4, 2000 at12:00 am