Lobbyists views on Food

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/23/700777/-Updated:-Video-Exposing-Food-Lobbyists-%28no-one-covered-this

In this article the author presents information about a topic he has researched for about two years. This topic is about the obesity in young kids and teens in America. He talks about how the school lunches are a huge part of the obesity in America. For instance, one lunch at a school consists of 1350 calories. Each person should consumer the most around 2100 calories a day, and that is if your very active. Also another fact he talks about is the fact that the average kid has replaced french fries and ketchup with abot 46% of their fruit and vegetable intake. This shows how the teens are making the wrong decisions on their health.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250263/ns/health-food_safety/

In this article the author is presenting an issue that one was the scare of the nation. The salmonella epidemic that went across America due to the peanut butter. This little scare brought down the profits of the peanut farmers about half a billion dollars across America. After the incident occurred it was really hard for the farmers to bounce back from it. So the farmers themselves went to the white house in Washington D.C to talk with the Congress to convince them to help bring the peanut industry back to where it once was.\

http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2531

In this article the author talks about how GMA represents over 300 household beverage and consumer goods. this article tells us about how biofuels are connected to the food companies. In this article the biofuels were planning to go against the energy independence and security act. And Glover Park Group undermined GMA for going against them.

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