CSPI hosts kids’ video contest
September 23, 2007
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is running a “Junk-Free Schools Video Contest” (see information about how to enter). It invites young filmmakers to make the case for getting junk food out of schools. The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate for iTunes and CSPI will showcase the video on its school foods website. Deadline: November 1, 2007. Get busy!
How much is anyone willing to bet that the winning movie promotes only low fat vegetarian food? That’s CSPI’s main focus.
Comment by Anna — September 24, 2007 @ 11:23 am
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
I feel that Michael Pollan makes a huge point in 7 words which were published in “Unhappy Meals” for
NY Times Magazine: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html
I know we have really strong family/cultural connections to the food we eat, like diets with a lot of meat products for example. But is continuing that pattern the best choice for us, as individuals? What if the “family history” of disease was more about a family habit in the way we eat? This second idea gives us much more control.
If evidence shows that a pattern of consuming plant-based whole foods is the best way to eat to prevent heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc., why would CSPI promote anything different?
Comment by Daniel, Ithaca NY — September 26, 2007 @ 2:59 pm