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Truth in Labeling and Sources

Candelaria Silva — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:07:44 -0500

I finished reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan this morning. I highly recommend it.

Reading your post made me shake my head. It's amazing the lies and spin manufacturers, especially the large corporations, will put on their products. In Pollan's book, he talks about why the word "imitation" is not on products that are "imitations." The powerful food industry, the FDA (which supposed work for US consumer's interest), and congress all worked together to keep consumers from the truth of what their eating.

I think this step in requiring foods labeled as being Canadian to actually come from Canada is great! Bravo.

Thanks for sharing.

Good and plenty!

O Canada -

Alanna Kellogg — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:26:06 -0500

Indeed. Last summer my 80-something aunt attended a 100-mile dinner (it's the latest thing, she assured me) and came away most impressed by a tea shop with a Manitoba tea. Manitoba tea? What? So we trekked to the tea shop and learned that the Manitoba tea was made from 'ingredients that might be grown in Manitoba (but weren't). There was also a Manitoba rooibos, the rooibos from South Africa (surprise, that's its home) because "it's a popular tea" and the other ingredients? Yep. Those self-same ingredients that might be grown in Manitoba (but weren't).

And hmm ... the more commercially viable local products, the more attempts there will be to subvert the system.

Alanna Kellogg
Kitchen Parade &
A Veggie Venture