Pulitzer-Winning Reporter Digs into Our Processed Food Addiction

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from Civil Eats:



Pulitzer-Winning Reporter Digs into Our Processed Food Addiction
By Kerry Trueman on March 7, 2013


From Bagdad to bacteria? Launchables to Lunchables? That’s one way to sum up the somewhat peculiar career path of Michael Moss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the meticulously researched, scathing new exposé, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. A few years back, Moss was risking life and limb to report for the New York Times from the Middle East, interviewing Islamic militants and exposing the appalling number of U.S. marines who died needlessly because the Pentagon failed to provide them with sufficient body armor.

When his Times colleague David Rohde was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008, Moss’s editors decided to bring Moss home and give him a safer beat: The processed food industry.

But in the terrorist-free terrain of Big Food’s boardrooms and Big Ag’s labs, Moss found himself once again reporting on body counts caused by a government agency’s failure to protect us. Only this time, the agents of death were salmonella and E. coli, not Al Qaeda. And the agencies in question were the FDA and USDA, not the Pentagon.

Of course, these deaths were the tragic result of negligence, incompetence, and greed, rather than an ideologically driven desire to murder innocent Americans. No food company would set out to fatally sicken anyone by intentionally contaminating its products with known toxins. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://civileats.com/2013/03/07/pulitzer-winning-reporter-digs-into-our-processed-food-addiction/