Food processors and marketers use word games to confuse us. “Distilled celery extract” is, in fact, a nitrite—Maple Leaf’s* packaging claim of “all natural” deli meats came under scrutiny by CBC’s Marketplace* in their recent “Lousy Labels” expose—Maple Leaf changed the label once they were exposed, and now confess that this product does indeed contain nitrites (kudos CBC!); that Canada and the U.S. are the only two industrialized countries in the world without regulations requiring mandatory labeling of GMOs (consider that Canada is one of the world’s largest producers of GE crops); and we’re dumbed down by a litany of false nutritional claims: Wonder’s bread with fibre includes the “hull” of the oat, but not the actual grain—a “fibre” with zero nutritional value—we might as well eat dead leaves off the ground.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:13:20 +0000
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