Petition Kraft Foods to eliminate artificial food dyes
Consumers in other countries have demanded that artificial dyes be removed from foods. Can we do the same here in the United States?
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I wish I could sign up to your petition but as a citizen of the UK all I can do is wish you well in your quest.
What are these artificial colors? Oh, it's just the same as those little friendly-looking food coloring bottles with the gnome hat lids, right? And what's in THOSE bottles, you might ask?
They come from coal tar extract, crushed insect chitin (skeletons) and poisonous metals (such as titanium oxide, for example - a common additive to things like Domino's parmesan cheese packets).
Yes - industrial waste, for the most part.
Yummy! Makes you want to go back for seconds,.... More
Thank you for letting your readers know, Robin!
Nobody needs to eat these petroleum-based additives since there are many natural alternatives available here in the US. For 35 years volunteers at the Feingold Association have been showing families how to find their favorite foods, but in versions that are free of the worst of the additives. See feingold.org for details.
It isn't enough for some parent to just stop buying foods with the dyes. Our children are given food in so.... More
You got my vote!
why not just stop buying these products? i would argue that most kraft products aren't good food choices even if they don't contain artificial dyes.
that the dyes should be eliminated. If I and all my readers just stopped buying them, there would still be millions of kids whose parents are uninformed that are ingesting these dyes regularly. Then there are the times when my kids are at someone else's house or at a party. I'd rather these food dyes not be in the foods they eat when they aren't under my control.
