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posted by martyb on Thursday August 04 2016, @07:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-are-what-you-eat dept.

Latin America is leading worldwide opposition to food industry marketing, and The Nation has a story on how much is happening in Brazil.

[...] Over the last 30 years, big transnational food companies have aggressively expanded into Latin America. Taking advantage of economic reforms that opened markets, they've courted a consumer class that has grown in size due to generally increasing prosperity and to antipoverty efforts like minimum-wage increases and cash transfers for poor families. And as sales of highly processed foods and drinks have plateaued (and even fallen, in the case of soda) in the United States and other rich countries, Latin America has become a key market.

[...] In recent years, Brazil has inscribed the right to food in its Constitution and reformed its federal school-lunch program to broaden its reach while bolstering local farms.

And, in 2014, the Ministry of Health released new dietary guidelines that made healthy-food advocates across the world swoon. [...] The guidelines transcend a traditional nutrition-science framework to consider the social, cultural, and ecological dimensions of what people eat. They also focus on the pleasure that comes from cooking and sharing meals and frankly address the connections between what we eat and the environment.

This is precisely the kind of holistic, unambiguous advice that US food reformers hoped to see in our new dietary guidelines, which were released in January. But for the most part, the latest version—which influences billions of dollars in government spending, the $5 trillion food industry, and the diets of millions of Americans—remains vague and narrowly focused, ensuring that no corporate ox was gored.

There is an infographic which nicely summarizes the differences between Brazil's and the USA's food policies and dietary recommendations.


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  • (Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Thursday August 04 2016, @06:31PM

    by PocketSizeSUn (5340) on Thursday August 04 2016, @06:31PM (#384156)

    For those countertop soda machines the SodaStream seems to be popular enough to have spawned a small cottage industry ...

    There is the Paintball CO2 tank to SodaStream adapter (so you can use cheaply refillable smallish CO2 tanks instead).
    Just google for paintball to sodastream and you should find a some for under $15.

    You can also use a *non-syphon* CO2 tank with a CGA 320 to SodaStream adapter hose (there are dozens of them available).
    Again just google for "CGA 320 to SodaStream" and you should find a few options.

    If you want to refill your own smaller CO2 tanks you need to a *syphon* CO2 tank so just be careful to use the right type of tank ...

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday August 05 2016, @08:18AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday August 05 2016, @08:18AM (#384417) Journal

    Thanks.. I was not aware the CO2 cylinders came in syphon and non-syphon. At the rates I use the CO2 ( very very slowly ), I do not think it would make much of a difference, but it might make a difference to using my other tank as a fire extinguisher. ( I figure if I am going to store the tank anyway, why not leave it configured as a fire extinguisher, as CO2 does not leave a helluva mess or leave powder in the engine intake if I was addressing an engine fire ).

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