McDonald’s Is Still Killing US – The Food Industry Has Not Solved Its Fundamental Problem

‘Ditching GMOs. Eliminating aspartame and artificial additives. Swearing off meat raised with antibiotics. Could it be that Big Food is finally cleaning up its act?

Sort of, maybe. A cynical observer, though, might wonder about the extent to which the food industry is pandering to a vocal, but not incredibly informed, consumer base, and whether it’s giving us meaningless “reforms” as a distraction from the real changes it’s not making to its products.

Count among the cynics WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, who posed a question along these lines to food guru Marion Nestle. On her blog, Nestle sums it up thusly:’

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