by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America What is it about corporations trying to sound hip that so often hits the wrong note? It comes off like your mother ending a text with “LOL.” It doesn’t sound cool; it sounds out of touch. That’s just what I thought perusing the website of Mixify, a […]
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas to benefit celiac disease sufferers. Those pitched on the sweet fruit’s miraculous properties didn’t know the project was actually created for the United Fruit Co., […]
Newsweek’s “You Are Totally Wrong about Genetically Altered Foods,” got a lot wrong (including in the original version of the article claiming that the world’s population was only 2 billion people. Oops!). I wrote this letter in response. It didn’t run on the site, but I thought I’d share here: Dear Editor, The […]
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America Last month, Chicago hosted two seemingly unrelated meetings. At the National Restaurant Association’s annual trade show you could check out workshops such as “Pickle Your Fancy” and “You Bacon Me Crazy,” while mingling with some of the other 63,000 attendees. Though the annual trade show is the NRA’s […]
In the New York Times Opinion Pages To the Editor: Mark Lynas’s profile of one farmer in Bangladesh does not represent the facts on the ground about genetically engineered eggplant there. The trials of the new variety of eggplant have actually had very poor results: Genetic engineering did not protect plants from most pests and have […]
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America “Doubt is our product,” wrote executives for tobacco giant Brown & Williamson in a now infamous 1969 memo on industry communications strategy. The memo was revealed during discovery in class-action lawsuits against tobacco companies that would eventually yield a trove of 85 million pages. Among those pages are […]
I am proud to be one of the signers of an open letter, published today in The New York Times and Washington Post, calling on the HHS and USDA to listen to the sound recommendations for our nation’s dietary guidelines. You can learn more at www.myplatemyplanet.org and give public comments on the health.gov website. Please […]
Last week, Fortune ran an article with this headline: “Campbell Soup CEO says distrust of ‘Big Food’ a growing problem.” Apparently the CEO of the soup giant explained that a “growing skepticism of large food makers that has resulted from consumers’ changing tastes as a key challenge for her industry.” Yes! That’s right. The diverse […]
by Anna Lappé for Al Jazeera America In October in Istanbul, farmers, agricultural researchers and advocates from around the world gathered for the Organic World Congress, organized by the 42-year-old International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM). With 800 affiliates in 124 countries, IFOAM comes together every three years to gauge its global efforts to promote chemical-free […]
via Martha Stewart Living Here in the food department of Martha Stewart Living, we hold our recipes to the highest standards. And the editors in our test kitchen spend a lot of time developing and testing those recipes. But when they’re not in the test kitchen — nor at a photo shoot — they’re constantly exploring […]