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 […]
Read MoreDocument 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 […]
Read MoreAttorney 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 […]
Read MoreAttorney Don Barrett joins Mike McConnell on Chicago’s WGN Radio to discuss his recent allegations of big food companies mislabeling, and misleading consumers.
Read MoreBBC 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 […]
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