Dammit! Another food goes off the menu
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miriam_eNestle has bought Uncle Toby's. For the last few decades I've enjoyed eating oats every morning. Lately I'd become a little puzzled at the crappy quality of Uncle Toby's Oats. They have always been reliably the best. However now they taste bitter instead of creamy and have adulterants in them -- little bits of round, black stuff, and bits of what look like mould. Well, I've found the reason. Uncle Toby's has been taken over by the biggest vampire of them all: Nestle.
No more oats from them.
It is no suprise that a high quality company gets swallowed up by one of the biggest collectives of immorality and then the quality drops through the floor. I mean, after all, they have no problem killing thousands of little children who are their customers (earlier in Africa, more recently in Bangladesh). They do everything they can to ram as much sugar, coloring and flavoring down Western kids' throats, helping to build a generation addicted to the stuff and in line for terrible health problems. Have you ever noticed how hard it is becoming to buy food that isn't sold to you by Nestle? They are clearly aiming at controlling as much of the food market as they can. They are definitely not the sort of organisation that you want controlling your food supply.
I wonder what it is in the oats that makes them taste bitter now. Probably pesticides. I don't think they are deliberately poisoning us -- I think they just don't care.
No more oats from them.
It is no suprise that a high quality company gets swallowed up by one of the biggest collectives of immorality and then the quality drops through the floor. I mean, after all, they have no problem killing thousands of little children who are their customers (earlier in Africa, more recently in Bangladesh). They do everything they can to ram as much sugar, coloring and flavoring down Western kids' throats, helping to build a generation addicted to the stuff and in line for terrible health problems. Have you ever noticed how hard it is becoming to buy food that isn't sold to you by Nestle? They are clearly aiming at controlling as much of the food market as they can. They are definitely not the sort of organisation that you want controlling your food supply.
I wonder what it is in the oats that makes them taste bitter now. Probably pesticides. I don't think they are deliberately poisoning us -- I think they just don't care.
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Date: 2009-03-21 06:45 am (UTC)I wonder why they would change the production process?
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Date: 2009-03-21 07:52 am (UTC)I'll buy my oats elsewhere from now on.
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Date: 2009-03-21 07:59 am (UTC)Are there not farmers' markets or the like near you from which you could source your oats?
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Date: 2009-03-21 10:14 am (UTC)Wonderful! :) How did I not think of that? (Of course I'm not the sharpest person on the block at the moment and will be relatively stupid till my course of treatment ends in mid-May.)
Uh... sorry about the candy. Milk chockie is one of the few sweets I actually like, so I feel your pain. :(
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Date: 2009-03-21 01:26 pm (UTC)Too obvious?
I always figured you were the kind of person to make your own muesli and such, so it made sense to me off the bat.
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Date: 2009-03-22 07:07 am (UTC)