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5 Chemicals You’re Eating That Are Worse Than Azodicarbonamide

May 21, 2014 By Food Retro

So Subway has made big changes to their bread. That’s pretty awesome. I’m HAPPY that people are finally getting upset over a food additive. I only wish that people would get upset over more of them. The worst thing that azodicarbonamide has been linked to definitively is asthma and other respiratory symptoms. Even so, that’s…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, Labels

FDA, Milk, Aspartame, and Silence

May 22, 2013 By Food Retro

You may have just heard in the last few days about the dairy industry lobbying for the right to large-label market milk with artificial sweeteners as just plain milk.  What you may not know is that the FDA had an open forum for consumer opinion on the matter dating from April 15, 2013 until May…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, Labels

If We Are What We Eat…

May 12, 2013 By Food Retro

Picture by: Kashfia Rahman You may have already seen that hot dogs are on my general naughty list because milk is frequently included as an ingredient. Let’s face it, in commercial food production, the average cheapo hot dog is one step above pet food.  We’re talking discard “meats” and fats and scraps and mechanically separated…

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Filed Under: The Answer is 42 Tagged With: GMOs, Labels

BBQ Season Incoming

May 10, 2013 By Food Retro

And that means it is that time of year, again.  Yup, I have to read a lot of hot dog labels.  If there was a mascot for my distaste for bottom-rung food production, it would be riding a wienermobile. I know that even when I was a kid, there was a lot of jokes about…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Labels, Life With Food Allergies

Sugar industry’s secret documents echo tobacco tactics – Health – CBC News

April 30, 2013 By Food Retro

Weight loss and pharmaceuticals for diet disorders alone are both industries worth billions.  Sure seems like no surprise to me that someone wants to try to keep people fat and chronically ill! View the video at  Sugar industry’s secret documents echo tobacco tactics – Health – CBC News.

Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Labels

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