Great Haysoos, Mary, and Joseph, even at my most jaded and cynical, had hoped the world held a few things to count upon: man's cruelty to other humans, wars, occasional glimpses of love, and teevee preachers stealing money from the gullible.
Nevertheless among the chaff of human life, always thought I could count on curling up with a quart of Breyers All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip or Butter Pecan ice cream.
Psych, they've started adding natural but crap products.
Do I really have nothing to believe in any more; has everything gotten sacrificed on the altar of Mammon?
[....Breyers has been making ice cream since 1866, and was famous for its Pledge of Purity guarantee and simple ingredients. But Breyers has done a little under-the-radar switcharoo, turning many of its products into something called a “ frozen dairy dessert,” complete with nasty gums and corn syrup and unpronounceable ingredients. The company can no longer legally call such products “ice cream” because there’s not enough cream or milk fats to meet the standards set by the USDA (score one for government regulation).
But you’d have to read the fine print on the packaging to know that your beloved Butter Pecan ice cream is now a chemical swamp.
In what appears to have been a cost-cutting move (using less dairy fat is cheaper), Breyers has been selling this gunk to unsuspecting customers for a few years now. Despite shrunken packages and cheaper ingredients, the price has only gone up.]
http://www.alternet.org/economy/7-major-consumer-rip-offs-watch-out-holiday-shopping-season
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