Tuesday, September 03, 2002

McDonald's Plans to Cut Fat in Fries (washingtonpost.com) "The nation's biggest hamburger restaurant chain says the new oil will halve the trans fatty acid levels in its french fries while increasing the amount of the more beneficial polyunsaturated fat. Health experts suggest that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated ones can help lower cholesterol levels." While this is clearly as step in the right direction, it is hard to believe that anything will really make the french fry a healthy food choice.  McDonald's is doing its customers a much greater service by offering them inherently healthy choices such as salads and yogurt parfaits. comment [] 9:40:29 PM

America's Failed Frontier "President Bush's support for agricultural welfare (with considerable Democratic backing) contradicts every value he stands for and reflects a complete capitulation to a calculus of vote-buying. America's rural policy today is about where Soviet industry was in the 1980's: the leadership knows that its policies have utterly failed but lacks the courage to reform them. " Bad agricultural policy appears to have led to bad farming methods, which in turn leads to unhealthy food.  Perhaps it is time for the nation to rethink its entire relationship to food. comment [] 9:36:41 PM

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