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Posted by Warm Worm on November 1, 2007, 9:07 pm
Don wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>>> Michael Bulatovich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ...I again thought about a particular brand of ice-cream-- Breyers--
>>>>>> that apparently reduced the costs of production (changed the recipe
>>>>>> and perhaps manufacturing method), but kept the price essentially the
>>>>>> same. They also did a number of "marketing tricks", such as
>>>>>> redesigning the package, and changing the wording ("double-churned")
>>>>>> in the ostensible interest of attempting to fool the customer... Found
>>>>>> this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.breyerssucks.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Unilever (the multi-national corporation that owns the 'Breyers',
>>>>>> Good Humor, and Ben & Jerry's brand names) recently started adding
>>>>>> tara gum (made from the seeds of the tara tree) [among other things]
>>>>>> to the 'All Natural' varieties of Breyers ice cream."
>>>>>> -- Wikipedia.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://adailyscoop.com/2006/09/11/breyers-natural-ice-cream-and-tara-gum-unilevers-response
>>>>>>
>>>>> So, stop buying Breyers. We did...a long time ago. Someone else will
>>>>> fill your niche if there is one...
>>>> One thing Breyers did in the repackaging was to change the 16 oz
>>>> container to a 15 oz container at a higher price point.
>>> A box of Breyers jumped to $5.25 s few months ago so I bought Prairie
>>> Farms for 4 something.
>>> Heavenly Hash or Tin Roof Sundae. Mmmmmmmm.........
>> What's actually in your ice creams? Heavenly Hash and Tin Roof sounds all
>> hunky-chunky-dory, until you look at the ingredients in some brandz.
>
> When it comes to junk food I don't look at all the junk thats in it, that
> takes all the fun out of it.
Well, there's food, junk food, and then there's "Frankenfood".
To be living with/within a system that gets sufficiently out of whack
(and I'm "beginning" to see it all around me) is like using anything
that's already in a serious state of disrepair. It's just plain
dangerous and wreckless.
Try that with your car, power tools or guns and see how far you go, or
how long you last.
Ideally, you don't wait until something fixes itself. You recognize
problems if there are any and then you fix them, replace them, or they
potentially kill or replace you (maybe not literally, just gradually,
spiritually) and others you might love.
> Ya know, when you watch one of them food documentary's on the toob where
> they get down in the gutz of the factory showing how all the stuff goes
> together, giants vats of stuff poured on conveyor belts and doodz with nets
> on their hair manhandling 5 gallon buckets of chemicals and stirring the
> hell outta stuff, and shit being slopped all over the jars and on the floor
> and all the nasty assed stuff going on in the background, didja ever
> consider how unsanitary all that stuff is? <shiver>
>
> I ain't eatin nuthing no more, ever........
"They're making Soilent Green out of people!"
(getting closer)
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