rgg@aplvax.UUCP (Richard G. Greenberg) (09/27/85)
> Every good veg knows that Nabisco unnecessarily uses lard in their > crackers (gag me with a former animal!), while Sunshine proudly > announces their products as using "100% vegetable shortening". > Really -- who would want another cracker from the same company who puts lard > in "Vegetable Thins"? :-) > I refuse to buy Nabisco products, or any other baked goods that contain lard. It's bad enough to eat rapeseed oil, palm oil, cottonseed oil, and other cheap ingredients and chemical additives without adding lard and beef fat. I buy less and less prepared foods all the time. As a rule of thumb, if I can't buy the ingredient in the supermarket, I don't want it in my food. When was the last time you baked lard, or FD&C yellow #5, or cottonseed oil, into a batch of homemade cookies? Never! I recently read the ingredients on a container of prepared chocolate frosting, you know, the one that advertises on national TV as "made with real butter." Well, ANIMAL FAT comes in ahead of butter on the ingredient list, way ahead. Disgusting! We consumers had better make our views known to the food processing chemists (they're not cooks anymore), or it can only get worse. Yours for natural foods, Richard Greenberg ...decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!rgg ...rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!rgg
beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) (09/29/85)
Someone said: >> Every good veg knows that Nabisco unnecessarily uses lard in their >> crackers (gag me with a former animal!), while Sunshine proudly >> announces their products as using "100% vegetable shortening". >> Really -- who would want another cracker from the same company who puts lard >> in "Vegetable Thins"? :-) >> I don't have any "Vegetable Thins" around, but Nabisco doesn't necessarily use lard in ALL their crackers. I assumed that they did after reading this note. However, I was pleased to see that the Triscuits on my shelf have the following ingredients: whole wheat, vegetable oil (partially hydroegnated soybean and palm oils or hydrogenated coconut oil) and salt. TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve product freshness. I'm not thrilled with their choices of oils or the TBHQ (whatever that is), but I don't eat Triscuits for nutrition. Check the labels. Complain to the companies. But remember that just because a company screws up on one(or more) products doesn't mean all of their products are bad. Beth Katz {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth
nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (10/03/85)
> We consumers had better make our views known to the food processing > chemists (they're not cooks anymore), or it can only get worse. See the extrapolation made in the movie "Repo Man". The hero of the tale eating his can of generic FOOD was a real hoot! -- Internet: nemo@rochester.arpa UUCP: {decvax, allegra, seismo, cmcl2}!rochester!nemo Phone: [USA] (716) 275-5766 school 232-4690 home USMail: 104 Tremont Circle; Rochester, NY 14608 School: Department of Computer Science; University of Rochester; Rochester, NY 14627