Fad Food Nation. By Trevor Butterworth
A skeptical survey of the claims being made about food, health and the environment.
The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2013, on page A13
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578593943760620664.html
Excerpts:
Not so long ago, I spoke to a chef who ministers to children attending
some of the most elite and expensive schools in America. Why, I asked
him, was his company's website larded with almost comical warnings about
the lethality of eating genetically modified (GM) food? Did he actually
believe this as scientific fact or was he catering to his clientele's
spiritual fears? It was simply for the mothers, he said, candidly. They
ate it up—or, rather, they had swallowed so many apocalyptic warnings
about genetically modified food that he had no choice but to echo their
terror. How could they entrust their children to him otherwise? The
downside of such dogma, he explained, was cost. Many of the mothers
wouldn't agree to their children eating anything less than 100% organic,
even if organic food required flying in, as he put it, "apples from
Cuba."
Mr. Butterworth is a contributor at Newsweek and editor at large for STATS.org.
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