Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science

 

In November, the AP also reported on emails showing Coca-Cola was instrumental in creating a non-profit that said its mission was to fight obesity, even though the group publicly said the soda maker had "no input" into its activities. A document circulated at Coke said the group would counter the "shrill rhetoric" of "public health extremists."
Coca-Cola subsequently conceded that it had not been transparent, and the group later disbanded.

 

 I find it fascinating that they place the juiciest quotes waaaay at the bottom of these articles , as if  hoping no one will read that far. 

I knew there was a war going on in the grocery stores and even the vending machines when they started a rating system in the vending machines at work that implied certain items (chocolate bars !) were actually healthy. Everyone (even chocloholics) knows that just isn't true and we made a lot of jokes about it at the time. 

Apparently , the average consumer who bothers to read the labels is considered a "public health extremist" ? Wow...just wow. When there is money on the table the lies and false accusations just keep on coming, don't they ? And setting up and running entire false "non profit" organizations to "fact check" their claims and pass them no matter how bogus they are ...just wow.