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Posted on 02/01/2006 10:41:29 AM PST by elkfersupper
America's largest foodmaker and its biggest cigarette company for years have likened themselves to distant siblings, giants that just happened to be owned by the same parent company.
In fact, Kraft Foods Inc. and Philip Morris USA have pooled expertise in search of making more-alluring foods and cigarettes since the dawn of their corporate pairing two decades ago, a Tribune examination of tobacco-lawsuit documents has found.
Documents show Northfield-based Kraft collaborated on flavor issues with some of the same Philip Morris brain researchers who probed what gives cigarettes their kick. None of those scientists was more controversial than Frank Gullotta, a former top Philip Morris researcher whose brain experiments suggested the company knew more than it claimed about cigarettes' addictive nature.
The documents also reveal that Kraft and Philip Morris discussed investing jointly in brain scans to study how the brain processes tastes and smells. Food scientists even helped their tobacco counterparts make experimental cigarettes--working after-hours in a German coffee plant.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Here comes the $7 box of Mac & Cheese and the $40 pack of Oscar Meyer Weiners.
Hope all you anti-smoking gnatzis out there are happy.
Ping.
"Hope all you anti-smoking gnatzis out there are happy."
I can't imagine what it must be like to go through life like that, and be sanctimoniously proud of it at that.
liberal mindset- it's not fair until everyone is equally miserable and joyless.
If the prices end up jumping that much, the least they could do is throw a little nicotine into them.
Kraft Nic & Cheese
Kraft, as a food company, was not compelled to release documents. But available records from Philip Morris, specifically from the files of tobacco employees, provide a tantalizing glimpse into the interplay between food and tobacco scientists.
Their collaboration on brain research "certainly sounds ominous," said Lloyd Kolbe, an Indiana University health sciences professor who served on a federal panel that reported last year on the marketing of junk food to children. "We need to understand the nature of that relationship," he said.
Oh my, it's "ominous" sounding!
As America grapples with an epidemic of obesity, some plaintiffs' lawyers would love to prove that junk food-makers manipulate their products to make it harder for customers to stop eating them.
Kraft has not been accused of such conduct in lawsuits. But other major food companies such as McDonald's have been sued for contributing to the obesity of children.
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Go to chicagotribune.com/oreo to read documents related to this story and the Tribune's three-part series, "The Oreo, obesity and us."
Mmmm, Oreos. Got Milk?
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To me this should be one great big SO WHAT?
I personally despise Philip Morris for selling out it's customer base to big government nannies..........but it makes perfect sense the scientists would be working together, particularly on issues involving the taste of a product.
"THERE IS NO SAFE CIGARETTE." says PM.
Aaaaarrrggghhhh !!!!!
Like I said...............
Bracing for some real laughter at the fat smoke nazis when the war on obesity begins. Ever been asked to put out the smoke by someone who was so fat they could hardly walk?
You're not playing fair, Gabz. You should be outraged, ticked off, crying for the fat children, taken aback and ready to sue somebody!
Come on, girl, get incensed! :^)
ROFL!!!!!!!!!
At 5'10" and 120pounds I don't think I'm in much position to being suing anyone on behalf of fat people..........maybe I could sue them because I am NOT fat, Kraft foods obviously have kept me from gaining any weight.
More often than not.
I use the unlit cigarette in the hand or mouth ploy to clear the fat chicks out of the candy aisle at the grocery store.
because of the taste? ;)
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I have a friend that has a very serious weight problem and is a non-smoker.
She is not an anti-smoker, she just doesn't smoke, and commented to me not an hour ago while we were on the phone that she has seen the handwriting on the wall and knows people like her are next after what has been done to the smokers. We were discussing another proposed tax increase on cigarettes in Virginia, and she said snack foods are next.
Pretty astute for a gal that isn't even 25 years old.
Thanks for the ping!
LOL!!!!!
It's amazing just how many products are made by Kraft or at least fall under the Kraft label.
I was really suprised when I went to the website for Certo Pectin, and it is actually the Kraftfoods website. I may despise Philip Morris, but I have to commend Kraft customer relations..........I complained about jelly not setting up using their product, which is the ONLY pectin I have ever used for jelly. Not only did I get a very thoguhtful letter from them, but also a check to cover the cost of the 2 boxes of pectin that had failed, and coupons for 2 more boxes free.
And you KNOW how "I" feel about this despicable company!
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