KRAFT KAVES! Maker of Oreos to Revamp Products: Cites Obesity

Associated Press -- "Kraft to Revamp Products: Cites Obesity" ^ | July 1, 2003 | Deborah Cohen

[L.N. Smithee]

Sorry about the error. I thought it was an article written by APes.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Our entire society is moving toward an end state where we are nothing more than pacified, sanitized, non-threatening drones. No one will be "offended", everything will be rainbows and sunshine, and we will live in a sterile, tasteless, odorless, non-threatening, non-offending world in which we no longer "live" but simply "exist".

It will be worse than the world of Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "Brave New World".

[FairOpinion]

My point is that if you don't like them, you don't have to buy them. You can go make your own from scratch.

Food manufacturers do what the consumer wants and that's what they should stick to. If they make changes it should be because they think they will sell more, because that's what PEOPLE, CONSUMERS want, not to appease trial lawyers and government regulators waiting in the wings.

If the public wants more healthy food, there are plenty of various size business selling that. That's capitalism.

If they make their Oreos so they won't taste good, someone else will come along and make something similar to the original ones.

Or are you in favor of the government regulating how much sugar and fat can be in a cookie and give you ration coupons as to how many cookies you are allowed to eat per month?

[Bluntpoint]

"Same with adults except substitute Playstation with computer."

We all are not burning calories right now?

I guess I will take off my Nike headband while I type.

[adam_az]

The honey glazed donuts are very similar to the description of Manna from Heaven in Exodus.

They are so good I will never eat them again, since I'm trying to avoid my genetic predisposition to diabetes.

[FairOpinion]

And why can't people make those decisions for themselves?

[areafiftyone]

Our entire society is moving toward an end state where we are nothing more than pacified, sanitized, non-threatening drones. No one will be "offended", everything will be rainbows and sunshine, and we will live in a sterile, tasteless, odorless, non-threatening, non-offending world in which we no longer "live" but simply "exist".

Sounds like the DU doesn't it?

[adam_az]

Fornication isn't so bad. You should try it some time.

[hattend]

Add in being killed at 30 and you have described "Logan's Run"

[tiamat]

Wow. Good luck with that! I admire your discipline!

As for me, I may have to try them!

Thanks!

Tia

[Freedom4US]

That's exactly what's going to happen. Food prices will spike just as tobacco products did, to pay off the scum of the earth, trial lawyers. Look for the same on booze, of course. It will be a beautiful thing when one day, Americans throw off their chains and take care of these guys once and for all.

[Cyber Ninja]

Looks bad, can you servive on Twinkies?

CB^)

[Shooter 2.5]

Exactly. This is not not an article complaining about Mom's baking. This is an article of the hidden dangers of chemicals added to make the cookies crispy just so it can have a longer shelf life.

I wonder how many people who are defending Oreos have undergone an angioplasy? Did they think it was fun just so the companies didn't have to restock their shelves as often?

[adam_az]

I didn't say they can't. I did, and I'm happier for it.

Thanks to public awareness, I'm noticing more and more products that DON'T have transfats and partially or fully hydrogenated oil. I noticed one brand of microwave popcorn the other day that didn't have it... and bought that one.

I agree, public awareness is the solution.

Unfortunately, convenience junk food manufacturers choose the cheapest materials possible, add some chemical flavoring, and overcharge. A lot of the things they use, like massive amounts of sugar and transfats, are really unhealthy. I wish consumers would wisen up faster.

Smokers pay more for heath insurance - obese people should too. Why should I have to pay for their poor choices?

[hattend]

Fornication isn't so bad. You should try it some time.

Cute. The first definition of fornication is sex with someone other than your spouse. Do you do that and does your wife know?

[adam_az]

I wonder how many people who are defending Oreos have undergone an angioplasy? Did they think it was fun just so the companies didn't have to restock their shelves as often?

That's what it's all about. Shame on the ambulance chasing lawyers - and just as much on the freepers who defend the food chemists for poisoning America.

On that note, I think we should subsidize tobacco farmers who export to Europe and China. ;) j/k

[FairOpinion]

"to pay off the scum of the earth, trial lawyers"
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While I have no love for trial lawyers, the REAL problem is the incredibly stupid jurors and the judges & politicians who allowed themselves to be bought by the trial lawyers.

With sensible judges, politicians and semi-intelligent jurors, they deep pocket cases would get thrown out of court, would lose, go nowhere and soon the trial lawyers would stop filing them and they would die out.

The problem is that the premise of our entire society is a total LACK of personal responsibility. Parents and schools should start teaching that and stop the "victimhood" culture, which fosters these lawsuits and the "Need" for "daddy government" to "take care of us".

[SamAdams76]

As one who is actively losing weight and getting in shape, I avoid like the plague every single food item that says "Kraft" on it. To me, Kraft is synonomous with "processed junk food." If I never eat a Kraft product again, my body will probably thank me by letting me be a cantankerous old man for a few years longer.

That said, I certainly don't support legal action being taken against food companies or even tobacco companies for that matter. I believe that the responsibility for getting fat due to eating too much junk food and/or getting lung cancer due to smoking must always fall upon the consumer.

I think Kraft is wasting their time. There is simply no way in hell you can make an Oreo cookie nutritious and good for you without turning it into a product totally unrecognizable from the original. Same goes for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and that processed cheese crap that comes in the aerosol containers (Cheez Wiz deserves a special section in the Museum of Bad Taste).

So Kraft is apparently going to spend millions of dollars playing around with the ingredients of Oreo Cookies and still produce a barely edible piece of junk. For their troubles, they are probably going to get sued by the busybody nannies just the same.

[FairOpinion]

"public awareness is the solution"
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Exactly. If and when people stop buying the junk, companies won't be selling it. But the threat of lawsuits and government interference shouldn't be the reason companies are forced to change foods.

[adam_az]

Unfortunately the food chemists are major advertisers, and the newspapers and other media don't like to kill the goose that lays the golden cadbury egg.