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25. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., 44–45.
26. Everybody’s Business, op. cit., p. 34.
27. Dietary Goals, op. cit., pp. 40–49.
28. Ibid. p. 49.
29. Jane Brody’s Nutrition Book, op. cit., p. 397.
30. U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Sodium Content of Your Food, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 233, pp. 11–12.
31. Ibid. pp. 17, 19.
32. Ibid. p. 28.
33. Gene A. Spiller with Ronald J. Amen, Topics in Dietary Fiber Research (Plenum Press, 1978), p. 78.
34. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Handbook of Agricultural Charts, 1978, p. 56.
35. Dr. Sharon Fleming, personal correspondence, February 26, 1981.
36. M. G. Hardinge, A. C. Chambers, H. Crooks, and F. J. Stare, “Nutritional Studies of Vegetarians III. Dietary Levels of Fiber,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1958, 6:523.
37. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., p. 25.
38. Ibid. p. 30.
39. Ibid. p. 13.
40. Everybody’s Business, op. cit., p. 785.
41. Wayne Anderson, “More Meat—or less—on the Dinner Table,” Feedstuffs, May 12, 1975, p. 116.
42. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., p. 58.
43. Everybody’s Business, op. cit., p. 784.
44. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., pp. 27–28.
45. “Antibiotic Feed Additives: The Prospect of Doing Without,” Farmline, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December 1980.
46. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Bureau of Foods, Compliance Program Report of Findings, FY77 Total Diet Studies—Adult (7320.73), pp. 8, 9.
47. Talbot Page, Joel Babien, and Stephanie Harris, “The Effect of Diet on Organochlorine Concentration in Breast Milk,” unpublished study. Contact through the Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. For report of women eating no animal food, see Jeffrey Hergenrather, Gary Hlady, Barbara Wallace, and Eldon Savage, Ethos Research Group, letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, March 26, 1981, p. 792. See also Birthright Denied: The Risks and Benefits of Breast-Feeding, by Stephanie G. Harris and Joseph H. Highland, Second Edition, revised, The Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., 1977.
48. Compliance Program Report, op. cit., p. 10.
49. Randall Ment, “Pestiscam,” Greenpeace Examiner, Spring 1981, p. 25.
50. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., p. 50.
51. Graham T. Molitor, “The Food System in the 1980s,” Journal of Nutrition Education, volume 12, no. 2 Supplement, 1980, pp. 103 ff.
52. The Changing American Diet, op. cit., p. 58.
53. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 304, no. 16 (April 6, 1981), pp. 930–33.
54. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 77, July 1980, p. 67.
Chapter 2. Who Asked for Fruit Loops?
1. Daniel Zwerdling, “The Food Monsters: How They Gobble Up Each Other—and Us,” The Progressive, March 16, 1980, p. 20.
2. “Judge Admonishes ITT Bakery Division on Price Tactics,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 1981.
3. Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins with Cary Fowler, Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (Ballantine, 1979), p. 324 ff. discusses agri-business expansion abroad.
4. Milton Moskowitz, Michael Katz, and Robert Levering, Everybody’s Business: An Almanac (Harper and Row, 1980), p. 1.
5. Impact of Market Concentration on Rising Food Prices, Hearing Before, the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly and Business Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 96th Congress, 1st Session on Rising Food Prices in the United States, April 6, 1979. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979, Testimonies of Drs. Russell Parker, John Connor, and Willard Mueller, p. 46.
6. Ibid. (These authorities estimated consumer overcharges to, be as much as $15 billion a year by 1975. From this, I estimate them to have reached about $20 billion a year by 1982.)
7. “FTC Asserts Big 3 Cereal Makers Reap Over $1 Billion,” Wall Street Journal, October 2, 1980.
8. Frederick F. Clairmonte, “U.S. Food Complexes and Multinational Corporations, Reflections on Economic Predation,” Economic