Food Marketing

10 Things We Should Teach Every Kid About Food

Rob Smart | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Rob Smart

We must find creative ways to reintroduce food in its broadest sense to children's everyday activities, starting with school, in order to close the knowledge gap between farm and plate.

Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green


Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

Guess Who's Controlling Our Food Supply

Rob Smart | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green


Rob Smart

It is hard to understand how a handful of companies have amassed so much control over food ingredients found in an estimated 75 percent of processed foods in America's supermarkets.

Why Are We Americans So Fat?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living


Irene Rubaum-Keller

The food industry has spent 25 million dollars a day selling kids frosted pop tarts, sugary cereal and candy.