Nestle to buy Linda McCartney foods - and packaging stories
from Baby Milk Action:
Jan Cornfoot
Nestlé looks set to swallow up McCartney range of frozen meals <http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/food_and_drink/news/article358202.ece>
Independent - London,England,UK
By Matthew Beard. Devotees of ethical consumerism were dismayed when The Body Shop was sold last month to a company part-owned by Nestlé. ...
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Nestlé to buy Linda McCartney <http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?Nestl%C3%A9%20to%20buy%20Linda%20McCartney&StoryID=27A6007B-F480-4C68-9C43-B7A5C28C3ED3&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE>
Business Online - London,UK
By Adam Durchslag. SWISS food giant Nestlé is preparing to buy Linda McCartney, the vegetarian frozen foods business from Heinz. ...
Chocolate packaging comes under fire <http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Chocolate_packaging_comes_under_fire.html?siteSect=105&sid=6630993&cKey=1145028194000>
Swissinfo - Switzerland
The relaunch of a popular chocolate brand owned by Nestlé, the world's largest food company, is causing concern in environmentally conscious circles in ...
Attention, shoppers: avoid the center aisles <http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2006/04/13_nestle.shtml>
Berkeleyan Online - Berkeley,CA,USA
Marion Nestle began to hear a common complaint four years ago while she was on the road promoting Food Politics, her then-current book, which showed how food ...
In the book, you also address the unqualified health claims put out by the food industry. What are some examples of questionable health claims?
I think all health claims on individual food products are questionable - every single one of them. If you eat oat-bran cereal, is that going to prevent heart disease? Of course not. Will a soy PowerBar help prevent cancer? I doubt it. So health claims make no sense. They're all taken out of context.
Are health claims always conditional?
They're always conditional and full of words like might, maybe, may. I don't think health claims should ever be allowed on food packages. Foods are foods; they aren't drugs.
How does the food industry get the American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Diabetes Association to agree to allow their logos or endorsements on junk foods?
Companies pay for these endorsements or implied endorsements. It's a simple cash exchange. The AHA, for instance, has criteria for the products they'll endorse: They only endorse products low in saturated fat and cholesterol - they don't care about sugar or carbohydrates at all. That's why you see the AHA logo on sugary cereals and salty snacks. The AHA doesn't even charge companies that much - just $4,500 a product, as far as I can tell.
Does the American Diabetes Association follow the same practice?
Their policy is more complicated. Food companies donate very large amounts of money to the American Diabetes Association - you can go on their website and see how much money they're getting. They don't exactly endorse products. The product labels say that the company is "a proud sponsor" of the American Diabetes Association. The AHA has scruples and does not accept money from cigarette companies, so it does not endorse Post cereals - Post is owned by Kraft, which is owned by Altria, which is owned by Philip Morris. The ADA doesn't care about that issue, so it accepts funds from Post/Kraft/Altria and allows (or used to allow) its logo on Post cereals, sweetened and not.
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