{"id":217,"date":"2007-04-11T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=217"},"modified":"2007-04-11T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:25:39","slug":"food_for_though_2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Labeling Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2007\/04\/11\/nutrition_label.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nutrition_label\" height=\"304\" alt=\"Nutrition_label\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/04\/11\/nutrition_label.gif\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>This week in addition to my regular <a href=\"\/2007\/04\/food_for_though_1-3.html\">Food For Thought documentary<\/a>, I was interviewed by CBC Radio stations across the country about some of the latest news in Canada regarding labeling of food products.&nbsp; Here are some links you may find helpful:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspection.gc.ca\/english\/fssa\/labeti\/nutrition-pagee.shtml\"><br \/>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency<\/a> on current labeling legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health report titled <a href=\"http:\/\/cmte.parl.gc.ca\/Content\/HOC\/committee\/391\/hesa\/reports\/rp2795145\/hesarp07\/05_Report-e.htm#6c\">Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/health\/story\/2007\/03\/27\/obesity-child.html\">CBC.ca report<\/a> on the Committee recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Felicity Lawrence of the Guardian newspaper in the UK has done some excellent articles about the battle over labeling in Britain.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/food\/Story\/0,,2013425,00.html\">Here&#8217;s the latest one.<\/a>&nbsp; For more on this issue from Felicity Lawrence, you can find of list of articles <a href=\"http:\/\/browse.guardian.co.uk\/search?search_target=%2Fsearch&amp;fr=cb-guardian&amp;search=Felicity+Lawrence+labelling&amp;N=\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; One of my recent podcasts contains a piece on childhood obesity from my archives, if you&#8217;d like to listen to it, you&#8217;ll find it on this <a href=\"http:\/\/dongenova.com\/shows_podcast.html\">webpage<\/a>, look for All You Can Eat Vol. 34.<\/p>\n<p>I used a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpollan.com\/\">Michael Pollan<\/a> during some of the interviews.&nbsp; This professor of journalism and food writer says, &quot;Don&#8217;t eat anything your grandmother wouldn&#8217;t recognize!&quot;&nbsp; I highly recommend his book called, &#8216;The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your comments about labeling.&nbsp; Scroll down to the bottom of the page to enter your thoughts.&nbsp; How should foods in Canada be labeled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in addition to my regular Food For Thought documentary, I was interviewed by CBC Radio stations across the country about some of the latest news in Canada regarding labeling of food products.&nbsp; Here are some links you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_2-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}