Tag: consumers
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Food Babe and the Pumpkin Spice Latte
Time for some real talk about a really annoying issue: the Pumpkin Spice Latte, more commonly known as the PSL, from Starbucks. Last year, the Food Babe and her fan girls caused a big ruckus because there wasn’t any pumpkin in the PSL and there were two doses of caramel coloring which contains the chemical 4-Methylimidazole (4-MEI).…
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The Importance of GMO’s and Writing Letters to the Editor
image from here Usually, I jam out to 106.9 Country Legends on the radio in my truck but in the mornings, on my way to work, I listen to the highly syndicated Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Show. Every week or so they have a segment titled “Consumer Watch” and they talk about a few…
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What’s in That Chicken McNugget?
photo from here I’ve been asked this question before on the blog – most recently in a comment from this post. And I’ve always forgotten to answer it; sorry, I’m not perfect and sometimes I forget. But McDonald’s of Canada has stepped up to the plate and become completely transparent in regards to what is…
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Consumer is a word
That I really don’t like. To me, it carries the same connotation as ‘educate’. We don’t need to ‘educate’ consumers, we need to engage, interact, talk to – anything but educate. And now I feel ‘consumer’ has joined the group of words that make me cringe when I hear them used during agvocate-speak. I don’t…