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In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic
Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) -- PeterN |
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PeterN wrote:
In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) I have seen some products containing "evaporated cane syrup", which of course is then what we call sugar,as is dehydrated cane syrup. This is not only false and misleading, but also poses some danger for people with diabetes mellitus. Shame on them. The F.D.A. should get after them. Mort Linder |
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| In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic
| Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The | front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" | WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the | supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He | seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the | is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) | Actually, that's only false advertising if it results in people not buying the product. As you've pointed out, there's no room for morality in business, so there's no such thing as false advertising in the sense of lying. Only in the sense of unsuccessful ad strategy. If it's the US then "natural" means nothing, but "organic" is actually strictly defined. I'm guessing (without seeing the whole label) that "sugar free" is also true. The cane syrup is presumably unrefined, as would be honey or maple syrup. I don't know whether "sugar-free" is officially defined as being free of refined sucrose or dextrose, but I don't think most people would consider it dishonest to advertise sugar-free cookies made only with, say, honey and fruit juice, because most people don't think of those things as sugar. Likewise, most "ice cream" is ice milk with seaweed or bean gum as thickener. "Frozen yogurt" need only be watered down ice milk with added bacteria. It doesn't have to contain any yogurt. "Whole wheat" bread is typically white bread with caramel coloring and a bit of whole wheat. Power bars, marketed as oat-based health foods, are essentially just candy bars for gym denizens who want to fool themselves. Breakfast cereals advertising "100% of all required nutrients" are dubiously sourced grain with a pile of sugar and a dash of vitamins added -- not a suitable foodstuff for anyone who cares about healthy eating. Dasani water is shipped from Indian peasants by Coca Cola (some say stolen from Indian peasants) and sold at the price of actual food. Yet it's just plain water. Most beer is actually a mix of beer and fermented sugar water. (Miller doesn't even use hops. They use chemicals derived from hops. Real hops would skunk the beer because of the clear bottles used. Is it still beer when it's only got a little barley and no hops?) On the bright side, Pom Wonderful just recently won a lawsuit against Coca Cola, which was selling a blend of 99% apple and grape juice as a powerhouse anti-oxidant formula of pomegranate, blueberry, raspberry juice.... Shall I go on? Are you, by some chance, asking for regulation of the marketplace? Well I never! |
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wrote: In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) I have seen some products containing "evaporated cane syrup", which of course is then what we call sugar,as is dehydrated cane syrup. This is not only false and misleading, but also poses some danger for people with diabetes mellitus. Shame on them. The F.D.A. should get after them. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...porated-cane-j uice-sugar-in-disguise FDA issued a guidance three years ago suggesting that manufacturers shouldn't use the term evaporated cane juice to describe sweeteners made from sugar cane syrup because the term hides the fact that ultimately it's sugar. Of course, because it's a guidance, and a draft one at that, the agency technically can't enforce it. |
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On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:27:53 -0400, Mort wrote:
PeterN wrote: In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) I have seen some products containing "evaporated cane syrup", which of course is then what we call sugar,as is dehydrated cane syrup. This is not only false and misleading, but also poses some danger for people with diabetes mellitus. Shame on them. The F.D.A. should get after them. Mort Linder In our local Tesco they sell packets of salted peanuts. Naturally they are marked 'may contain peanuts'. -- Neil Reverse ‘i’ and ‘e’ Remove ‘l’ to get address. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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On 7/3/2014 9:28 PM, Mayayana wrote:
| In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic | Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The | front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" | WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the | supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He | seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the | is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) | Actually, that's only false advertising if it results in people not buying the product. As you've pointed out, there's no room for morality in business, Please show exactly where I "pointed that out." -- PeterN |
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On 7/3/2014 9:28 PM, Mayayana wrote:
| In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic | Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The | front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" | WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the | supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He | seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the | is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) | Actually, that's only false advertising if it results in people not buying the product. As you've pointed out, there's no room for morality in business, so there's no such thing as false advertising in the sense of lying. Only in the sense of unsuccessful ad strategy. If it's the US then "natural" means nothing, but "organic" is actually strictly defined. I'm guessing (without seeing the whole label) that "sugar free" is also true. The cane syrup is presumably unrefined, as would be honey or maple syrup. I don't know whether "sugar-free" is officially defined as being free of refined sucrose or dextrose, but I don't think most people would consider it dishonest to advertise sugar-free cookies made only with, say, honey and fruit juice, because most people don't think of those things as sugar. Likewise, most "ice cream" is ice milk with seaweed or bean gum as thickener. "Frozen yogurt" need only be watered down ice milk with added bacteria. It doesn't have to contain any yogurt. "Whole wheat" bread is typically white bread with caramel coloring and a bit of whole wheat. Power bars, marketed as oat-based health foods, are essentially just candy bars for gym denizens who want to fool themselves. Breakfast cereals advertising "100% of all required nutrients" are dubiously sourced grain with a pile of sugar and a dash of vitamins added -- not a suitable foodstuff for anyone who cares about healthy eating. Dasani water is shipped from Indian peasants by Coca Cola (some say stolen from Indian peasants) and sold at the price of actual food. Yet it's just plain water. Most beer is actually a mix of beer and fermented sugar water. (Miller doesn't even use hops. They use chemicals derived from hops. Real hops would skunk the beer because of the clear bottles used. Is it still beer when it's only got a little barley and no hops?) On the bright side, Pom Wonderful just recently won a lawsuit against Coca Cola, which was selling a blend of 99% apple and grape juice as a powerhouse anti-oxidant formula of pomegranate, blueberry, raspberry juice.... Shall I go on? Are you, by some chance, asking for regulation of the marketplace? Well I never! You are confused, to say the least. -- PeterN |
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On 7/3/2014 10:13 PM, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, July 3, 2014 7:06:29 PM UTC-4, PeterN wrote: In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) Organofreaks are morons. Most of them don't know a thing about chemistry but think they can understand good from bad foodstuffs. This stupidity is why Americans also spend $30 billion or more a year on quack medicine, unproven "supplements" and other 15th century rubbish. Darwin will sort them out. Darwin has done nothing about moronic anti plastic freaks. -- PeterN |
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On 7/3/2014 9:27 PM, Mort wrote:
PeterN wrote: In the frozen dessert section of the supermarket is a "Natural Organic Product. Extract from the label "organic dehydrated cane syrup...." The front label contains a declaration: "SUGAR FREE" WTF is dehydrated cane syrup, if not sugar. I mentioned this to the supermarket manager, who stated they would be taken off the shelves. He seemed to appreciate that I brought this to his attention. (Oh! yes! the is a small local market, not part of a large chain.) I have seen some products containing "evaporated cane syrup", which of course is then what we call sugar,as is dehydrated cane syrup. This is not only false and misleading, but also poses some danger for people with diabetes mellitus. Shame on them. The F.D.A. should get after them. Mort Linder Unfortunately the FDA cannot enforce that, for many reasons. And yes, the false label represents a danger to diabetics, who cannot understand the gobeldegook. Remember Barnum posted a sign: "THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS." You had to pay to get back in. -- PeterN |
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Organofreaks are morons. Most of them don't know a thing about chemistry but think they can understand good from bad foodstuffs. This stupidity is why Americans also spend $30 billion or more a year on quack medicine, unproven "supplements" and other 15th century rubbish. Darwin will sort them out. Let me see if I understand this. Organofreaks are people who are concerned about things like overly processed foods and toxic chemicals in the food supply? And you're on the side of rational science because you don't care what's in your food so long as it tastes good? Are there only two, well-defined, scientifically delineated groups then -- looney tunes and people who eat normal, like you? What are the unproven supplements? Are you referring to testosterone replacement, statins, cures for the alleged scourge known as "acid reflux", sleeping pills, and the treatment of "childhood disorder" with psychoactive drugs and speed? On that I'd have to agree. Drug companies marketing to doctors has become a big problem. And that's not even getting into over-the-counter nonsense like cold cures and the latest fad: washing one's hands constantly with overpriced alcohol solution in hopes of keeping bacteria away from one's body. It's amazing what passes for science these days, wouldn'tcha say? |
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