Can Big Food Regulate Itself? Fat Chance

Mark Bittman's opinion piece in New York Times

"That voluntary guidelines could curb the right to free speech is absurd, but not as wacky as letting the industry set its own standards. Yet that’s what has happened: The Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), a group of food manufacturers that includes McDonald’s, Burger King, PepsiCo and Kraft Foods came up with its own guidelines defining foods healthy enough to market to kids."  -- More here


STTA

• Here is the primary political battle in the U.S. in a nutshell: Defining or limiting the proper role of government in our lives. Corporations have a clear and simple response: Let the parents decide. Your thoughts?