Surprise, surprise, the FDA thinks America’s kids are for sale

Dear friends,

Please be assured that I am not in the habit of preaching.  I hate it as much as the next guy, but the recently introduced Smart Choices program by the FDA has deemed Froot Loops and Lucky Charms healthy choices for children.  I can’t sit back and let them fuck up the next generation nutritionally like they fucked up ours.

Clearly the organization is for sale, clearly the nation’s kids are too, and unless enough people speak out about this, they’ll continue to label things like Snickers (it’s got peanuts!) and Sunny Delight (a whole day’s worth of vitamin C!) healthy foods because these companies pay them to do so.  For $100k, a company can join and “recommend” healthy choices for kids.  Kellog’s and ConAgra sure as hell jumped on the bandwagon, peddling their cheaply produced, GMO-infested, massively unhealthy wares via this medium.

To read their version of the program, go here.  And while you’re at it, look up all the sugar cereals you used to eat as a kid.  I bet they have the label.

Please sign this petition.  And please consider joining Food Democracy Now.  If you join, I will cease to harass you.  That is all.

Love,
Jen