Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? —By Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens  |November/December 2012 Issue On a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the […]

Advocate Capital, November 5, 2012, by Lisa Wagner Advocate Capital friend and client Don Barrett, renowned for his success in leading the fight in the tobacco litigation is now focusing on making an impact on behavior in the food industry.  The issue is misbranded food labels. BBC video:  

A Timeline of Sugar Spin How the sweets industry won America’s heart—and gut. —By Maddie Oatman  | Wed Oct. 31, 2012 2:03 AM PDT It’s striking to realize that such a basic commodity—a substance we spoon into our coffee every day and use in almost everything we bake—may play a causative role in some of […]

Document Dive: What’s Inside the Sugar Industry’s Filing Cabinets? Internal papers reveal a strategy to safeguard sugar from “opportunists,” “pseudoscientists,” and “enemies.” —By Maya Dusenbery | Wed Oct. 31, 2012 2:03 AM PDT Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens relied on more than 1,500 pages of internal sugar industry documents for their exposé “Big Sugar’s […]

Attorney Don Barrett was interviewed on the KUOW Weekday Show back in August. “Anti-Tobacco Lawyers Take on ‘Big Food’: Large food companies like PepsiCo and Heinz have recently attracted some unwanted attention from a few big-time lawyers. Attorneys who won anti-tobacco cases in the ’90s are going after what they’re calling “Big Food.” They’re saying […]

Attorney Don Barrett joins Mike McConnell on Chicago’s WGN Radio to discuss his recent allegations of big food companies mislabeling, and misleading consumers.

BBC News published an article entitled, Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry. Here’s a snippet from the article: “Mr Barrett’s case against Big Food is that companies are misrepresenting their products, promoting them as “natural” or “healthy”, when in fact, he says, they are no such thing. His mission is to make them stick to […]

Mississippi Trial Lawyer Don Barrett Leading the Way Again, by Lisa Wagner “If the name Don Barrett sounds familiar to you, there’s reason.  Pictured here, sitting at his desk with a portrait of his daughter hanging in the background, Don Barrett is the quintessential American family man.”

StarTribune – Big Tobacco lawyers find next target: Big Food Article by: STEPHANIE STROM New York Times August 18, 2012 – 10:21 PM “Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago after suing Big Tobacco and winning record settlements from R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris and other cigarette makers. […]

Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers By STEPHANIE STROM, Published: August 18, 2012 “More than a dozen lawyers who took on the tobacco companies have filed 25 cases against industry players like ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills and Chobani that stock pantry shelves and refrigerators across America.  The suits, filed over […]