Newsletter - May 21, 2024

Dear brothers and sisters,

Rejoice with us in this vibrant Spring of hope and renewal with a tomato, cucumber and apple salad enlivened with kale and cilantro. An almond, walnut,black tahini dressing sweetened with Medjool dates puts it altogether on a bed of romaine lettuce.

May we wish you and family a delightful springtime of good health, prosperity and success

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

We invite you to partner with us in building our business. We are seeking investors. If you wish to be part of our effort to promulgate alive, organic food and support family farmers please get in touch. Let’s work together in building here a garden for the American spirit.

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Email us here
1 800 260 5534

by Ralph Nader

About 45 years ago, at a social gathering, I asked an executive of a Minneapolis-based large food processing company if he fed heavily sugared cereals to his children.

He smiled as he shook his head. Smart person. His and other major companies producing what is now called ultra-processed foods (UPFs) had scientists and labs.

They knew that ever higher doses of sugars, fats and salts were being poured into nutritionally stripped foods and deceptively promoted to youngsters on kiddy television. They profitably ignored the serious damage they were causing!

These companies’ marketeers succeeded in getting these children, as my mother would say, to turn their tongues against their brains. The children were also shown how to nag their parents into buying junk food and drink.

In fact, Madison Avenue advertising firms would give high ratings for ads “with a high nag factor.”

Read more