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Weekend reading: UNICEF policy on engagement with food and beverage companies

Food Politics

UNICEF does not want its statements to be compromised by conflicted interests with food and beverage companies that make formula or foods for children. Here’s how UNICEF will be dealing with the food and beverage interests. Avoid all partnerships with ultra-processed food and beverage (UPF) industries.

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Farmhand Foundation: Cultivating Organic Change in Southern California

Food Tank

Making the switch from conventional farming practices to organic is a three-year process, and comes with a series of steps. Before launching the Foundation, Schneir and Barkley started Tractor Beverage Company in 2015. Farmhand Foundation hopes to provide support to farmers on the front end that can help them navigate the transition.

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Senator Bernie Sanders vs. Big Food

Food Politics

While diabetes and obesity rates in America soar, the food and beverage industry spends billions on advertising to get consumers, including young children, hooked on their unhealthy products. This has got to stop. A good place to start? Banning junk food ads targeted at kids. This is not a radical idea.

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The Various Products you can make from Plantain and Banana

Agric4profits

Plantain can be eaten raw when ripe, processed into flour to make elubo, a local meal consumed in Nigeria and other parts of the world with soup, and also serves as industrial raw material in firms producing sanitary pads, fabrics and also for the food and beverage industry for making baby foods, biscuits, bread and… Read More » The Various (..)

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British Nutrition Foundation vs. concept of Ultra-Processed Food

Food Politics

I’m always surprised when the nutrition community opposes evidence for the association of ultra-processed foods with poor health outcomes. These may be classed as ultra-processed but can still be part of a healthy diet. I read an article about such opposition from the British Nutrition Foundation. national dietary guidelines).

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At long last: legislation to reduce childhood obesity and diabetes!

Food Politics

Bernie Sanders (I-VT): NEWS: Sanders and Booker Take on Food and Beverage Industry with New Legislation to Address Childhood Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics. That means banning junk food ads targeted to kids and putting strong warning labels on food and beverages with unacceptably high levels of sugar, salt, and saturated fat.”

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Why ultra-processed foods matter: the state of world hunger

Food Politics

Ultra-processed foods are a critical part of this story. The word “processed” comes up 264 times in this report; “highly processed” comes up 99 times. Malnutrition in all its forms is related to poor diets, the rise of low-cost nutrient-poor foods and the increasing availability of highly processed foods in rural areas.