Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military officials also insist that the lull is one of those recurrent pauses in which the enemy disengages his troops in order to regroup and resupply. Intelligence reports estimate that the North is still infiltrating 10,000 men per month into South Viet Nam. The Reds continue to cache food and arms in preparation for future offensives...
...made a great many enemies. Since 1964, when he first accused the automobile industry of making unsafe cars, the one-man consumer lobby has taken on mine owners, television manufacturers, union leaders and bank holding companies. Last week, Nader was on the attack again. His target: the U.S. food industry...
...Master's Choice. Testifying before Senator George McGovern's Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, the all-purpose crusader accused the food industry of doctoring its products for taste, color and texture at the expense of purity and quality. Claiming that the industry adds unnecessary and possibly dangerous ingredients to foods, he charged it with endangering the health of the American public. Said Nader: "The silent violence of harmful food products ranges from minor discomforts to erosion of bodily processes, shortening of life or sudden death...
...fact, reported Nader, U.S. pets may actually eat better than their owners. While much food for human consumption bears no nutritional information on package labels, dog-food makers stress the nutritional value of their products. As a result, Nader said, some low-income families take to eating dog food...
Regulation Hit. No less dangerous, according to Nader, is baby food. He told the committee that the salt and monosodium glutamate added to baby foods serves no nutritional purpose and may actually cause harm. A team of physicians backed him up. They testified that the salt could cause hypertension. They reported that flavor-enhancing MSG, which is added to baby foods to please test-tasting parents, produces the headaches and chest pains of "Chinese-restaurant syndrome" in adults and causes brain and eye damage in test animals. The doctors urged that MSG be removed from the Food and Drug Administration...