Late last month, I alerted you to an FDA citizen petition submitted by two dairy industry trade groups relating to dairy products and artificial sweeteners. I told you how the dairy industry wants to change the “statements of identity” for milk and 17 other dairy products to allow non-nutritive sweeteners (such as aspartame) in these [...]
{ 10 comments }
Happy Monday, TLT’ers! In the past few days, so many interesting news items have piled up in my in-box that I can’t possibly do them justice with individual posts. So here’s a compilation of links you ought to check out: As I mentioned on TLT’s Facebook page late last week, Whole Foods made big news [...]
{ 1 comment }
No one knows better than I the tremendous potential power of an online petition to bring about needed changes in our food supply. And now, just a day after the one-year anniversary of the launch of my “pink slime in school food” petition, it’s gratifying to report that two important new food petitions are catching [...]
{ 8 comments }
Food activist Nancy Huehnergarth tweeted this troubling Dairy Reporter item last Friday, which indicates that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are asking the Food & Drug Administration for permission to add aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to the flavored milk sold in U.S. schools without certain front-label disclosures. [...]
{ 22 comments }
I’ve been out of the daily-blogging saddle recently (recovering from surgery) and haven’t written on a matter of real substance in a few weeks. So I’ll use that as my convenient excuse for potentially creating some confusion this morning with my post about a petition by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to ban milk [...]
{ 5 comments }
For much of March and April, The Lunch Tray was dominated by the issue of “lean finely textured beef,” i.e., a beef filler made from heated and ammoniated slaughterhouse scraps and popularly referred to as “pink slime.” As you know, on March 6th I launched a Change.org petition here on the blog which asked USDA [...]
{ 67 comments }
No longer the regular TLT feature it once was, I still like to serve up the occasional Friday Buffet to share kid-and-food news I didn’t get to during the week. . . . Domino’s Continues to Grow Its School Food Market Nothing really new here. My own district has long been selling nutritionally-rejiggered Papa John’s pizza [...]
{ 7 comments }
Over the last few weeks, a pro-LFTB commenter named Tiffany has left numerous wall posts on TLT’s Facebook page and when I finally wrote my belated response to her this morning, it seemed worth posting here since many pro-LFTB commenters on this blog have raised similar concerns. For those who wish to see the exchange referenced [...]
{ 222 comments }
Bravo to Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine, an early and vocal supporter of my effort to get lean, finely textured beef, commonly referred to as “pink slime” out of school food. After sending a letter to USDA in support of my petition, Representative Pingree also circulated a sign-on letter in Congress, garnering the support of 41 [...]
{ 12 comments }
Exactly three weeks to the day after starting my Change.org petition asking USDA to remove lean, finely textured beef (“LFTB,” aka, “pink slime”) from the ground beef used in school food, I’ve decided we’ve reached an appropriate juncture to close the petition. The final signature count: 258,632. Here is my open letter to everyone who [...]
{ 78 comments }
Copy it. Share It. Nail it to the schoolhouse door.
