Quote of the Day

"There’s nothing wrong with candy. It’s the candification of our other food."

Dr. Samia Kawash, The Candy Professor

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Naughty, naughty soda companies!

Marian Nestle at Food Politics shares the details of Coke, Pepsi and other sugary-drink makers efforts to hide their lobbying work against soda taxes. The corporations have every right to fund speech to fight their efforts, but their attempts to hide that funding makes them seem a bit slimy. Even a six-year old knows that hiding the truth is the same thing as lying.


Big Soda sues to hide its funding of anti-tax campaign