This is Scary! Food Industry Secrets Exposed

Please read this article or even a portion of it to get what its about: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/orange-juice-moms-secret-ingredient-worries/story?id=15154617

When I saw the article about Orange Juice having "secret ingredients", I wasn't surprised one bit.  I have learned so much about the food industry and the implications of mass production of food that when I read something like this, my cynical nature says to myself, "Yep, figures they are doing something sneaky".  I am sure that most of you saw the recent articles about apple juice containing high levels of arsenic.  Now the most common brands of orange juice contain a secret flavoring that doesn't have to be put on the ingredient label.  I would love to think that these are isolated incidents and are the only ones of their kind.  I would love to think that the processed food is actually "safe" but its not.  Most of the stories about chemicals and toxins in the food processing system never make it to main stream media.  Those stories are bad for business. The industry affected usually pays off the media so the news ( or rather the truth) doesn't hit consumers. How many people want to eat a cantaloupe after people were dying of listeria?  Here is an article written years ago ( so this is a long standing problem) about a few of the food industries secrets:

   http://health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/diet/articles/2008/10/17/10-things-the-food-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know?PageNr=1

And now, after reading this article about orange juice, do you want to go out and get a glass of Minute Made orange juice? I am sure Minute Made's PR team is working on damage control as we speak. 

 Instead of having a glass of orange juice, eat an orange or fresh squeeze the juice yourself.  It even tastes better that way.  Try an apple instead of apple juice. 

A great book about the food industry and food in general is :

  "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan

http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/0143114964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324318583&sr=8-1








Please be an aware consumer and know what food you are putting into you and your families bodies.  Your health will be the reward.  And maybe together we can stop the food industry from being sneaky and making us sick.