Is corporate funding an issue?
By Lisa Kaplan
Many news outlets and reporters look to the American Dietetics Association for trustworthy and accurate information on diet and nutrition.
I would have done the same until I learned that the ADA favors industrially processed ingredients over organic food, even though their own Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group has repeatedly found that plants cultivated in organic systems contain higher levels of nutrients and an organic diet avoids the many serious health risks associated with pesticide exposure.
The American Dietetic Association refuses to endorse organic, but it has given its stamp of approval to aspartame and genetic engineering. Could this be because they receive industry funding from companies like ARAMARK, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Corowise, Ecolab, Ensure, General Mills, GlaxoSmithKline, Kellogg”s, Kraft, Mars, Pepsi, and Unilever, as well as the industrial dairy and beef industries?
Lisa Kaplan
Hidden Valley Lake
