Is an announcement that Pizza Hut, Taco Bell artificial ingredients will be replaced with “natural alternatives” by the end of 2015 meaningful or just hype?
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7 Misleading Health Claims You Should Never Believe
Most of us want to eat healthier. And food marketers know just how to push our buttons. Here are 7 health claims they use to get you to buy unhealthy food.
Top News from the Food Front: Ag-gag Lawsuit, Healthwashing, & Non-GMO Beer
This weeks food news features ‘healthy and natural’ mislabeling, a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s brand new ag-gag law, and fast-food wage theft. But don’t worry: you’ll also find great news for organic growers, beer drinkers, and organic beer drinkers!
Coca-Cola Sued For False ‘Healthy & Natural’ Advertising
Its almost laughable that Coca-Cola would try to use a ‘healthy and natural’ marketing tactic, but that’s what they did. Consumers are fighting back. According to Courthouse New Service, Coca-Cola [ … ]
Top News from the Food Front: Ag-Gag Alert, GMNo, & Food-Package Poison
Idaho strides boldly towards hideousness, with its latest bill aimed at criminalizing animal-ag whistleblowers. Food stamp use rises among a population where it absolutely should not, and a new report indicts the ‘substantial equivalence’ assessment that boosted GMOs to grocery-shelf sovereignty. Meanwhile poison seeps into your food from its packaging, and grocery manufacturers try to dupe you with deceptive labeling — okay, technically that last thing isn’t (strictly speaking) ‘news.’ But the food news world has been hopping this week: don’t miss the good stuff, read on!
It Was Just a Matter of Time: PepsiCo Ditches ‘Natural’ for ‘Simply’
In the tsunami-like wake of lawsuits filed against major food brands for misuse of the word “natural” to market unnatural synthetic and genetically modified ingredients in products like Wesson Oil and Pepperidge Farm’s Goldfish (which also don’t contain any goldfish if anyone else wants to jump in on another class action suit), PepsiCo has decided to drop its use of “natural” for a simpler word. Literally. “Simply.”
Gerber Baby Food Gets False ‘Natural’ Label Lawsuit Dismissed
Like so many food companies under fire for misleading consumers with the term ‘natural’ on their product labels, Gerber has successfully tried to get a false ‘natural’ labeling lawsuit dismissed. [ … ]
One-Stop-Shop Helps You Make Claims For False ‘Natural’ Labels
ClassActionRebates.com provides consumers with a “one-stop-shop” to find foods with false ‘natural’ labels and then file class action rebate claims online. Too many false ‘natural’ labels The website ClassActionRebates.com is a [ … ]
7-Eleven Shuts Down False ‘Natural’ Advertising Lawsuit
7-Eleven Charged with False ‘Natural’ Advertising Convenience store chain 7-Eleven Inc. was about to join a growing list of companies that have been sued for mislabeling their food products with [ … ]
100% Natural Rhubarb Liqueur Hits The Shelves
Rhuby Rhubarb Liqueur seems to be 100% Natural. Truly. These days it seems like everyone wants to cash in on the $29 billion ‘natural’ foods market. Alcohol companies are no [ … ]
Naked Juice Removes ‘All Natural’ Label Because Of GMOs
PepsiCo brand Naked Juice will stop using ‘all natural’ to describe its products after agreeing to settle a US class action suit for $9 million. Naked Juice: No More ‘all [ … ]
Bogus ‘Natural’ Products Under Attack
I was thrilled to learn that in March of this year that the Organic Consumers Association has launched a nationwide campaign to “expose and eliminate the misleading practice of ‘natural’ [ … ]
Right On, Target: The Major Retailer Introduces a New Healthy Food Collection
Shopping at Target just got more interesting. Last week, the major retailer announced a new line of natural and organic food and beverage items, named Simply Balanced.