charming militant socialist worker-owned hippie grocery store form,
enforcing their ban on products that try to sneak weird chemical crap
into the food supply.
Try to save a few bucks by switching to corn poison instead of sugar?
Not in my grocery store, Clover! You're out!
4 comments:
Hi,
Good for you. As you well know HFCS has invaded our food supply.
Courtesy of the Corn Refiners Assoc.,
go to www.corn.org/NSFC2006.pdf
P29-30 list all the products that
contain HFCS. Some surprises: soups, bagels, cough syrups.
StopHFCS.com lists foods that are
HFCS-free they welcome additions and suggestions.
I love Rainbow and now I love it even more.
o interesting. Rainbow Grocery really knows its audience - it doesn't have to explain why HFCS is problem. Actually, even mainstream audiences (of Oprah, Prevention Magazine) have a fairly high awareness of HFCS (for the health threat, anyway). Unfortunately, too many of them forget to read labels--perhaps too trusting of the food system. Maybe they need this kind of heads-up flagging of the problem.
This should serve as a model of education and vigilance that more stores should venture to employ. Grocery stores can't be demonized for offering what their customers demand - in many cases, the shop or restaurant couldn't survive if they stopped selling the HFCS soda, and other hugely environmentally harmful, needless "food". Customer demand has to be painstakingly taught and guided, and in addition to a massive TV ad campaign, no better place for reaching these consumers than the shelf, the point of sale.
BTW, doesn't California prop. 65 mandate signage for all products with carcinogenic ingredients? Hmmmm. . . .
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