'Food Babe' Bread, Beer and Blog News: Blogger Investigates Food Industry, Subway and Anheuser-Busch
A well-known blogger who goes by the nickname Food Babe has challenged food manufacturers like MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch to let their customers know about the ingredients of their products. The companies are the two biggest producers of beer in America.
She dared them to post their products' ingredients online. If either of the two companies took her challenge, other companies would feel pressure to do the same thing.
Food Babe hopes that posting product ingredients on the internet will improve transparency in the food industry and help solve issues involving bad chemicals in food as well as resolve disagreements between consumers and food companies without having to make add any additional government regulation.
The influential food blogger was also behind Subway changing their bread because of its azodicarbonamide ingredient, as the restaurant chain recently announced in their commercial. Azodicarbonamide is used as a flour bleaching agent as well as a bread "improver" and is present in most bread. Unfortunately, this chemical is also found in other products such as yoga mats.
The movement for food manufacturers to post their ingredients on the internet was started by Food Babe, who is a crusader for organic foods and food approaches.
Food Babe posted on her blog that providing a list of ingredients for consumers to read on the internet does not require any perplexing and prolonged involvement from the government. It will not even require companies to spend any money, so expenses are literally zero. It is an act of goodwill that will drive viewership and attract people to those companies' websites and increase their perception among consumers. This should ultimately build confidence within their present customer base and attract new customers.
She explained that she chose the two companies since no one really knows the ingredients of beer despite it being one of the most widely-consumed drinks. The purpose was to make consumers aware of what they eat and drink in order that they can choose to eat foods that are not detrimental to one's health.
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