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Grocery Goliaths: Who Really Controls Your Food Supply?
Want more transparency into your food supply? Take Food & Water Watch’s Foodopoly quiz to see what you know. Then read its new report — Grocery Goliaths.
Mac And Cheese: Kraft To Remove Risky Food Dyes From Some (Not All)
A few days ago, Kraft announced it will remove harmful artificial dyes — Yellow No. 5 and 6 — from its character-shaped mac and cheese. Good news. Is it enough?
Learn How Big Food Companies Support (Or Not) Good Nutrition
Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) just released its first report on the nutrition-related policies and practices of 25 of the largest global food companies.
Kellogg’s, General Mills Among Oxfam’s Top 10 Food Bullies
A new Oxfam campaign published today, Behind the Brands: Food Companies Scorecard, ranks social policies of food and beverage companies and things aren’t looking good for the top 10 food companies [ … ]
Creating Addiction: Food Company Strategies
Bruce Bradly, who “worked for over 15 years as a food marketer at companies like General Mills, Pillsbury, and Nabisco,” wrote a pretty interesting piece recently on the way food [ … ]