Let's Ask Mainstream Companies to Make Healthier Products!

At our favorite intersection of food and politics, the Times published an article today on how charities such as the American Diabetes Association are rethinking what they expect of the food companies that help raise funds and awareness, while selling products work against healthful aims and "core matters of conscience." For instance, in exchange for using charity logos, some companies achieve endorsing high-calorie foods that may be low in sugar, but high in calories; clearly these products may raise monies for the cause and simultaneously undermine efforts to expose the correlative relationship between diabetes and obesity.

As an increasing number of companies use awareness products to support charity fundraising campaigns, we hope that this will result in education for the companies, too. Perhaps we should be emboldened by these developments and raise our expectations for mainstream corporations: We want genuinely healthier foods, sweets, and consumer products that do no harm to consumers, workers, community economies, and the environment!
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