Archive for February, 2007
Chocolate or Mockolate?
OK, this means war. Big Food has asked its lapdogs at the FDA to redefine chocolate:
The Chocolate Manufacturers Association, whose members include Hershey, Nestle SA and Archer Daniels Midland Co., has a petition before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to redefine what constitutes chocolate. They want to make it without the required ingredients of cocoa butter and cocoa solids, using instead artificial sweeteners, milk substitutes and vegetable fats such as hydrogenated and trans fats. Read the rest of this entry »