Comments on: Interview with Marion Nestle: Regulating Artificial Food Coloring

By: Une bloggeuse américaine se prononce sur les colorants alimentaires « L'effet barbe à papa

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:00:52 +0000

[...] Sources : http://modeledbehavior.com/2011/04/07/interview-with-marion-nestle-regulating-artificial-food-colori… [...]

By: I don’t even know what this means but it is a terrible idea « Modeled Behavior

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:39:43 +0000

[...] of food that the government shouldn’t be regulating. This apparently includes a food’s color, the amount of salt or sugar, how it is advertised, what goes on the box, and now the portion size. [...]

By: Is food coloring necessary? - Eating Real Food

Is food coloring necessary? - Eating Real Food — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:06:50 +0000

[...] Ozimek from Modeled Behavior didn’t understand Nestle’s objection to artificial coloring. She responded to his questions in an interview. AO: You say that food coloring is “unnecessary [...]

By: Alcohol as Market Reform Leader « Modeled Behavior

Alcohol as Market Reform Leader « Modeled Behavior — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:00:14 +0000

[...] At significant risk to your perceptions of me, I post this early on a Tuesday. Last week Adam posted an interview with Marion Nestle, who is a strong advocate for something that I can’t really [...]

By: After all, bubonic plague is natural. – A few thoughts.

After all, bubonic plague is natural. – A few thoughts. — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:54:16 +0000

[...] that consumers don’t need food coloring in their food. In an email exchange with Adam Ozimek, she explains: MN: Since they are unnecessary and deceptive, I can’t see any reason to do anything to protect [...]

By: Schisma Tism

Schisma Tism — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:07:00 +0000

Also:

MN: Valued by whom? Industry, certainly. Food is fine as it is. It doesn’t need artificial enhancements. Foods that “need” artificial dyes are not really food. They are “food-like objects.”

Cola is a carbonate kola nut beverage, not much different than taking cold herbal tea and dumping seltzer water into it. Adding artificial food coloring into my carbonated herbal tea (ick) to make it visually more appealing doesn’t make it a food-like object. It’s still tea.

Where do you find these people?

By: Schisma Tism

Schisma Tism — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:59:36 +0000

I think she wants the bans but doesn’t want to come out and say it boldly that she simply wants it banned out of illogical preference. How is anyone protecting their use when there are no laws mandating their use?

By: Schisma Tism

Schisma Tism — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:57:32 +0000

“MN: Surely, artificial food dyes can be replaced by something better.”

Lawlz… That was such a copy/paste job of an answer.

By: Niklas Blanchard

Niklas Blanchard — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:23:29 +0000

Or is the issue that she just wants warning labels placed on food that includes dyes?

By: Niklas Blanchard

Niklas Blanchard — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:20:29 +0000

While she has strong inclinations toward a ban, her unwillingness to commit here is something I find very frustrating. Saying that we shouldn’t “protect their use” is an economist-ish indifference principal that I don’t think she really adheres to, otherwise she would have said something stronger against a ban and for increasing public awareness that food coloring additives are generally unneeded, and let the market sort it out.

And yes, her general advice is quite snobbish.

By: Josh W.

Josh W. — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:38:32 +0000

What a snob.

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Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:25:57 +0000

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