Yeah, Aunt Agnes is a hoot.

Oh, the food companies are just the worst. The good thing is you can always read the ingredients like you said. At least having ingredients on the package is the law now.

I heartily accept my deputization! I’m honored!

I totally love what you have to say about being a food cop when it comes to agribusiness. Sometimes being a cop is necessary.

-Lena

I totally agree with your comments about advertisers making products look healthy when they’re not. Let’s talk about the fancy designer drinks with minerals, herbs, weight-loss potions, and fructose! and other fake ingredients – they’re listed way at the bottom. They burn my shorts too!

And then there are all of the children’s cereals that have at least one piece of colorful fruit on the package – but there’s little or no fruit in the product. They want us to feel good about the products we purchase so they make them pretty – wellness looking. I hereby deputize you, Lena West, as the 007 food cop. Who else wants to be deputized?

I frequently say that I’m not a food cop when giving presentations about wellness. I believe people can eat what they want and do what they want–without my judgment. My only job is to inspire them to use a few wellness tools that I have in my bag of tricks. Wellness is all about self-responsibility – not big brother or sister (or wellness educator).

But it occurred to me the other day that I am a food cop when it comes to monolithic agribusinesses and advertising firms that know exactly the nuance in sucker packaging that will cause us to lose our logic. Let’s bust ‘em! Food Cop deputies everywhere – UNITE!