Restaurant/Fast Food

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</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wendy’s & Wall Street + Millionaire CEOs propping up abortion ban politicians
</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LittleSis research analyst Derek Seidman profiled Trian Partners, the powerful hedge fund behind Wendy’s, and its billionaire CEO Nelson Peltz, who refuses to meet the modest demands of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The article - written for <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h20/G6q3peQASTBhWBqtfhfNpcxpJUg9cRDwXydsuC53ERKuExRr98rWKXsLgAidP2ufFiLz6UfSY144sLIhLfExuIJmaGxUVoet2RSl-2FUyVrSYY6e19lFi8qGF4p7s9fJq5Wdi-2Bdmr-2B7ydrDD0LSZohNPGiPPlix-2B0qPPbnwDYtKi-2FJMGJPP3V-2BtCakyAXwdWKJCadYKOliPBnrkyDMYm4mBvgzoPxxUMNUyo03bIGsKkb4JzTn-2B9G15Zy8nLVItwL-2BseBQVDKiqCnRORcW-2BaqfpNdP611-2F0pQLaxYt6NyjWDep8LBHDWFZ-2FxrLUz1bewVbxz7THmQ3ivcuupdql7wxSAHyfR8CPYLOHiXbVxTgWFOlnMQIPzeqSgo5IItqkLtc9TAPB0LEvLgveMoW-2FtLFVLLN6YHf-2BLSIElfQVW8RnfiGlJ-2BJkpDQsHNbAPAZ5FkKXajiHN0QQi2dKYv-2F5LTocAbYT9-2Bkyc6EdwL-2FTFCq3AzyXtjE6Kw87bSr6ERkxy3P2G4x9AFuvYw-2BojYl7oV2mf0fXFsUbyMfA-2BtthkpHYOvB7iJpBO-2FR3QL0BNO-2FOHCA" style="">Truthout</a> and reposted at <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h21/IGbuxRGxf-2FM66JIJ8i1XmlKpM4f-2FAtZ3n7NY22ycLYmGkOuDHtFfuZp1jFy3He4XLB1-2B3TaVIFGkemWxBXJMGVzxNGCv-2B4j5K611nyeepL-2FjOGJUAGGqHFnl244nNVvrxwDW8pjYMNTYVB5YP-2FWK5dNoLDNnKJlPfPeeCnO0QnWPlKJqIYJzJkaMO2BnDHLxJO-2FJmEAE0crOHWdI9BvZrsSKuAJudpDs6pSczNMgqi5yYzlzyWn-2BJnot-2BtFNbekp3LocIlfJ6u-2F0AM8wnb0iMyzoTo9yAS-2FVwVlsul7jDmWiyImYFjiXFE5rNTmUWFOfpW4igCL68BfoLUCQzwJPxDIsUjAxxr-2BlIc4fjVljecE-2BWBjiVTIYDVhA60Sd72-2FvitF1wKjVZzZj6l3vK3Nh3Xps4wDkWeKTOqzjD-2Bw365qWkJzY2tA-2Bw7gBqkJqpq08jchYjA6quKgEfXWkNfK7jn2NtIvSaka-2BO8Pp5XSvDa354qkNBJisaqBafVc6SNDVEmym1sP5vsFXruTw18czb1eGN0pymvNc94lCtKDPbLhYBNenUbR3gXsYUXlu3aQsqJEk4Qqq9Q4dZltECV9Nmwby7-2BEjzlyCG-2Bl9skgsdWQ-3D" style="">Eyes on the Ties</a> - went viral and was shared over 80,000 times on Facebook alone, making it one of our most widely-read stories ever. (Check out what the Coalition of Immokalee Workers had to say about the article <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h22/HkXsXQs1QkiGsMoPUd01YjREFfcrelgMYU9juHaauwsgHp06TqRp9fJWQGm0YF9ueGrCBShYS4So9o4UBuQyeFxqMIUyo1IhZf-2F8MuitdzjJ0aAM0m5Dd0kBiwGEDc7aBNu2jORTiQrA-2FM-2FY0-2BCHe0wQoNuMB-2BHpkwYLsaPrRkRxEkTY4oqdz1y-2BpIVUDIY-2FWEoLUN0TiI0TOSXv0IatfOOoqD-2FwZP6EtIIu5SzGCP1gBxBvrqBOUVKzE-2BMfxJeHp8t9tyAJRFNAVuTr8Mw1HWeq0h4eq2lKCh3ubik4CRKoNpKyx4kFHxhQlmjfk-2FTNZw64-2BhHxZUQ8l6qcaOyCJ1C-2FjAe6sHOmQERdAxvHjyGfiv-2B-2B8JeozHjDDl5JVEWP0gQlFXRzZCdVqfjFHp8qOdFfOqRcb0hLGc0ihUadF-2Fi5778FmgOz6EATxaSkRDaI2pzFUIYcibeBwC0HYm8S1uU6Y7Zg09iy0IJZdH-2BCex4w4wJr-2BN2hZHLe8DRlcFh0" style="">here</a>).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mall fail b/c pl can not go to restaurants as much, delivery services cheap? wolff 8/3/18</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><span style="" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a landmark study this year, two prominent labor economists at Princeton found that these secret bans on wage competition are used by more than 70,000 chain restaurants, including Burger King, Carl’s Jr., Domino’s, Pizza Hut, and (until this March) McDonald’s. By colluding to prevent millions of Americans from switching jobs to increase their incomes and opportunities, these giants have artificially kept the pay of fast-food workers and many other franchise employees stuck at poverty levels. That’s one place inequality comes from–and it’s un-American. A class-action lawsuit recently filed on behalf of thou-sands of McDonald’s workers asserts that it’s also illegal.</font></span></p><p><span style="" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">..</font></span></p><p><span style="" eb="EB" garamond="Garamond" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here we go again. Several news reports in recent months have documented the ongoing, shameful abuse of these hard-working, hard-traveling families. A Los Angeles Times report revealed that, even if they receive the hourly minimum wage, many farm laborers earn less than $17,500 a year because of the seasonal nature of their work. Moreover, they are often “housed” in shacks, old chicken coops, shipping containers, and squalid motels. Yet in my state, owing to the Texas Legislature’s cutbacks, the agency responsible for safe and sanitary migrant housing spent a grand total of $2,476 on inspections in 2015. The agency has imposed zero fines for housing violations since 2005. “As a result,” the Austin American-Statesman reported, “an estimated 9 in 10 Texas migrant farmworkers lack access to licensed housing that meets minimum health and safety standards required by state and federal law.”</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Forbes Magazine

When the city council of Santa Fe, New Mexico, placed a measure on the local ballot to tax sugary drinks earlier this year, the soda industry responded quickly, pouring $1.3 million into the anti-tax campaign. To cover their bases, industry lobbyists also pursued a back-up plan: they backed a bill in the state legislature to strip local governments of the power to levy such taxes.

In the end, the state language was added to another bill that sailed through the New Mexico House before dying in a Senate committee, shortly before Santa Fe voters defeated the local soda tax. But as a growing number of cities consider and increasingly pass soda taxes and other measures designed to combat obesity and promote healthy eating, the food industry has turned to a strategy used extensively by the tobacco and gun lobbies.

 The strategy, known as preemption, uses state laws to take away the right of cities to enact various kinds of regulations, reserving that power to the state. The tobacco industry used preemption to block or weaken local ordinances that ban smoking in public spaces. The firearms industry used it to beat back local efforts to control gun sales.

Now, lobbyists for numerous industries, including soda makers and fast-food chains, are pushing state laws that block municipal governments from adopting local controls. Aiding the effort is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group backed by corporations and conservative foundations, which brings together state lawmakers and industry lobbyists to draft and disseminate model legislation.

At least nine states have passed nutrition-related preemption laws, according to Grassroots Change, a nonprofit group that monitors state preemption efforts. Others have adopted measures that keep cities from requiring employers to provide paid sick leave or nullifying laws that protect gay or transgender people from discrimination.

The federal government can also preempt state and local law. In recent years, Congress has passed several bills with preemption provisions, including a revision of the key 40-year-old federal act regulating chemicals, a law requiring restaurants to display nutrition information, and another relating to disclosure of the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products. These laws also limit states and cities from regulating the same products, though each does so in different ways.

In 2011, the National Academy of Medicine urged in a report that federal and state legislators avoid wording preemptive laws “in a way that hinders public health action.” But a growing number of state legislatures are ignoring that plea.

A 2011 Arizona law bars local governments from regulating restaurant giveaways of toys and prizes like those given to children eating McDonalds Happy Meals or at the Chuck E. Cheese pizza chain.

Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Utah ban regulations requiring restaurants to publicly display nutritional information.

Mississippi and Ohio bar both these types of regulations and Wisconsin prohibits cities from restricting food or drink sales based on size, caloric content or nutritional value.

In New Mexico, the soda tax preemption language was added at the last minute to a 300-page substitute bill addressing a variety of tax issues, said William Fulginiti, executive director of the New Mexico Municipal League, an association representing cities, which opposed the preemption as an infringement on the rights of local communities.

“It was done quickly. I don’t think they were even aware of what was in the bill,” Fulginiti said of House members who passed the substitute tax measure. Fulginiti said the original bill had been supported by The Coca-Cola Co. and that a Coke lobbyist had visited him to push for the bill.

Sarah Maestas Barnes, the New Mexico legislator who introduced the original preemption measure, received a $1,000 campaign contribution last year from Admiral Beverage Corp., which manufactures and distributes Pepsi and other drinks. Barnes didn’t return several phone calls and emails seeking comment
 
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pthalates</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/15/researchers-have-found-an-alarming-new-side-effect-from-eating-fast-food/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/15/researchers-have-found-an-alarming-new-side-effect-from-eating-fast-food/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na</a>
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>James H. Davidson believes in the First Amendment. The former college newspaper editor turned lawyer turned Senate aide is now one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington</b>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For two decades, Davidson has been the point man for the advertising industry in free speech issues. More recently his clients have also included food and beverage companies in alliance with advertisers<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. They have joined forces to lead the fight against the proposed<b> government guidelines on sugar, salt and fat in food marketed to 2- to 17-year-olds.</b></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Davidson also says there is no proof that food marketing causes obesity, and without it, there is no legal basis for restricting the ads.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The First Amendment protects this type of speech," he said.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other lobbyists pointed to the role of potentially unlimited political donations in explaining how industry has been able to so thoroughly defeat the proposed <b>salt, sugar and fat g</b>uidelines.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2009, Congress passed a measure proposed by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Harkin and Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) </span>to ask the FTC and three other agencies -- the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CDC,</span> the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration -- to draft voluntary nutrition standards for children's food marketing</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The two senators were motivated by studies showing that children develop lifelong preferences from watching ads that target them with saltier, sweeter foods than adults.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/nyregion/new-york-attorney-general-accuses-dominos-of-wage-theft-in-lawsuit.html</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="114" data-total-count="114" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The system, as outlined in a lawsuit filed by the New York State attorney general, was as simple as it was flawed.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="74" data-total-count="188" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A pizza is ordered from Domino’s. A pizza is made. A pizza is delivered.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="120" data-total-count="308" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The workers who assembled and delivered the pie clock their hours on a computer system, and those workers are then paid.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="572" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But for years, according to the lawsuit against the corporate franchiser that owns Domino’s Pizza, the computer system used by franchises across the state systematically undercounted hours worked by employees, shortchanging them hundreds of thousands of dollars.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="198" data-total-count="770" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit, announced on Tuesday, was the latest salvo in a campaign by the attorney general, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/eric-schneiderman?version=meter+at+null&module=meter-Links&pgtype=article&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-click">Eric T. Schneiderman</a>, against what he says is a pattern of corporations shortchanging low-wage workers.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="114" data-total-count="884" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2011, Mr. Schneiderman has secured more than $26 million for almost 20,000 workers who were bilked of wages.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="302" data-total-count="1186" id="story-continues-1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But unlike past cases, this one directly targets the corporate franchiser. If the state wins, Mr. Schneiderman hopes the case sets a precedent that makes it harder for corporations that run franchise businesses to avoid responsibility for the actions taken by the stores under their corporate umbrella.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="157" data-total-count="1343" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Wage theft is an epidemic causing harm to low-wage workers struggling to support their families every single day,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="244" data-total-count="1587" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Across the country, lawsuits involving wage theft have been on the rise. Broadly defined, wage theft involves employers’ violating minimum-wage and overtime laws and not counting work hours, and management wrongfully taking employees’ tips.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="118" data-total-count="1705" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The surge in lawsuits, according to labor advocates, is a reflection of the changing nature of the American workplace.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="369" data-total-count="2074" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Increasingly, corporations are using franchises, subcontractors and temp companies to fill jobs. One result is fierce competition to fill jobs with people who will work for the lowest possible wages. And, in turn, corporate franchisers can insulate themselves from charges of wage violations by creating a degree of separation between the corporation and the employees.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="139" data-total-count="2213" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 1.625rem;">Still, even with both federal and state prosecutors focused on the issue, the abuses continue, labor advocates say.</span>The Labor Department, through its wage and hour division, has recovered more than $1 billion in unpaid wages across the country since 2010.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="171" data-total-count="2499" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, the New York State attorney general lodged a victory against 23 Domino’s Pizza outlets in New York for wage theft, securing $448,000 in restitution for workers.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="128" data-total-count="2627" id="story-continues-2" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That year, Domino’s also settled a class-action lawsuit brought by employees for $1.3 million for wage violations in New York.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="302" data-total-count="2929" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That lawsuit accused a Domino’s franchisee, DPNY Inc., of a variety of unfair labor practices, including not giving a legally required lunch break, not paying for uniforms and paying a subminimum tip wage even when the workers did untipped work, like cleaning ovens and floors or distributing fliers....</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7OFJd0uhJY3TYa0tT0PRU5albuNCfrHa&v=eKaSZCxvo0M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7OFJd0uhJY3TYa0tT0PRU5albuNCfrHa&v=eKaSZCxvo0M</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eric Schlosser's Edible Education 101 lectures, "The Hands that Feed Us", featuring guest speakers from California Rural Legal Assistance, streamed live from the University of California, Berkeley on February 9.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edible Education 101 is presented by the Edible Schoolyard Project, UC Berkeley Food Institute, Berkeley College of Natural Resources, and the UC Global Food Initiative with support from the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Office, and Epstein-Roth Foundation.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Full course details: </span><a href="http://edibleschoolyard.org/ee101" target="blank" title="http://edibleschoolyard.org/ee101" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; line-height: 17px; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://edibleschoolyard.org/ee101</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><header class="content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><h1 class="title multiline" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 56px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Do Republicans Love Pizza?</font></h1></header><div class="dek char-limit multiline" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 1.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Presidential hopeful Herman Cain is just one of many pizza magnates who favor the GOP in politics—and donations. David A. Graham analyzes why Republicans get far more pizza-industry money than Democrats get.</font></div><section class="content-body article-body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Can you raise Herman Cain when he’s in defeat? The charismatic, long-shot GOP presidential contender’s name is suddenly on the lips of pundits after his <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/09/24/cain-wins-florida-straw-poll.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">upset victory in the Presidency 5 straw poll in Florida on Saturday</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After a strong start, Cain—a political newcomer whose only previous run was a failed bid for the Republican nomination for Senate in Georgia—faded quickly following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s June 27 entrance into the race. She stole much of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/21/herman-cain-can-the-pizza-guy-win-it-for-the-tea-party.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">Cain’s Tea Party fire and brimstone</a>. Until then, he was running second only to Mitt Romney in many polls.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether his Florida triumph proves a last hurrah or the start of a comeback for Cain, his unorthodox background spotlights a curious phenomenon: the overwhelming conservatism of the pizza industry. Although Cain rose to business prominence with Pillsbury, working for the baking giant’s Burger King arm, his claim to fame is his time at the helm of Godfather’s Pizza, of which he served as CEO from 1986 until 1996, even buying the company from Pillsbury in 1990. Cain’s years at Godfather’s marked him deeply, and he has said the skills he learned there would serve him well as president. “The restaurant business is not capital intensive—it’s people intensive,” Cain said. “If you don’t have a keen ability to connect with people in the organization, cause people to be self-motivated, you’ve got to get people to take ownership.” On the trail, he has frequently<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/26/herman-cain-s-2012-campaign-schedule-packs-in-many-less-important-states.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">scheduled appearances at Godfather’s restaurants</a>, and his signature economic proposal—the <a target="blank" href="http://www.hermancain.com/donate999#sc=91211CNNDEBATE999" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">9-9-9 Plan</a>—even sounds a bit like <a target="blank" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=5-5-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">a popular pizza special</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But other pizza moguls have similarly generous records, according to an analysis of campaign-finance records by The Daily Beast. Thomas Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, is a staunch conservative Catholic who’s poured money into Catholic initiatives including the <a target="blank" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/pie_in_the_sky.php?page=all" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">controversial Ave Maria University</a>, which is paired with a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.avemaria.com/Default.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px none; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; display: inline;">planned town known as Ave Maria</a>. But Monaghan also has put a great deal of his money into politics, donating $371,000 to Republican candidates since 1979. He’s donated $4,000 to Democrats—both recipients also have been Catholic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The list goes on—Dan and Frank Carney, the founders of Pizza Hut, have given a combined $81,000 to Republicans over the last three decades. The trend is cross-generational, too. John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s and young enough to be the Carneys’ son, has given $33,000 to Republican candidates, mostly in his home state of Kentucky. Even in the laid-back, arch-liberal Golden State, California Pizza Kitchen founders Richard Rosenfield and Larry Flax have each given $6,500 to Republicans—with only $500 apiece to a single Democrat, former governor Gray Davis. Little Caesar’s founder Michael Ilitch is more bipartisan: he has given nearly $118,000 to Republicans, with $67,000 going to Democrats. But many of the Democratic recipients have been either in Ilitch’s home state of Michigan or officeholders well positioned to help the gambling industry, in which he also has business interests, while many of his Republican donations have been to presidential contenders or PACs outside of Michigan.</font></p></section><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman keeps cracking down on wage theft, and around 250 workers will be sharing in a nearly $500,000 settlement from four current and former Papa John's franchisees.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Once again, we’ve found Papa John’s franchises in New York that are ripping off their workers and violating critical state and federal laws,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement. "Once again, I call on Papa John’s and other fast food companies to step up and stop the widespread lawlessness plaguing your businesses and harming the workers who make and deliver your food."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though it often isn't treated this way, it actually is illegal to fail to pay minimum wage or overtime, to make people work off the clock, to force workers being paid at the tipped worker subminimum wage to do non-tipped work, and a disturbing list of other ways businesses have found to keep money that workers have earned. And about that "once again":</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July, the attorney general's office arrested Abdul Jamil Khokhar, owner of nine Papa John's stores in New York, accusing him of breaking minimum wage and overtime laws. According to his plea agreement, Khokhar could serve up to 60 days in jail. In another case, the attorney general's office secured a judgment of nearly $3 million against two other Papa John's franchisees.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So while the workers were technically employed by—and cheated by—the franchisees, at a certain point you see a pattern and start to think maybe the parent company has something to do with it. That's one of the reasons the National Labor Relations Board pushed to treat some fast food chains as joint employers responsible for working conditions in franchise restaurants.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2013, a report from Fast Food Forward found 84 percent of New York City fast food workers reporting that they'd been victims of wage theft. Fully 100 percent of fast food delivery workers said the same. Schneiderman's efforts to crack down have also led to settlements at franchises of other chains, including Domino's and McDonald's.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In the </span><em style="line-height: 24px;">Citizens United</em><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> case, the Supreme Court ruled corporations are people, with the same right to influence politics as voters. Meanwhile, many corporations, including McDonald’s, Monsanto and Peabody Energy, have cited the principle of corporate constitutional rights in recent efforts to fight back against new laws. McDonald’s and other franchises are now suing the city of Seattle over its new</span><b style="line-height: 24px;"> $15-an-hour minimum wage law</b><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, arguing it violates its corporate personhood rights. On Tuesday, the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">International Franchise Association</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> told a federal judge that the law unfairly discriminates against franchise owners by treating them differently than local small business proprietors. They’re basing their case on the</span></span><b style="line-height: 24px;">14th Amendment,</b><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a constitutional provision written to protect newly freed slaves after the Civil War and ensure equal rights for all people. Monsanto is challenging Vermont’s recently passed </span><span class="caps" style="line-height: 24px;">GMO</span><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-labeling law under the First Amendment, claiming it forces them to speak against their will.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about outrageous, disgusting — or simply unbelievable? Well, believe it or not, it’s happening every day in multiple ways, and not by a few bad apples, but in what has become routine corporate practice by McDonald’s, Burger King, Domino’s, and other hugely profitable giants.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Technically this shortchanging is called “wage theft.” It involves such slick-fingered moves as erasing hours from employee time cards, requiring off-the-clock work, not paying for overtime hours, refusing to reimburse workers for gas they burned while making deliveries, or inventing uniform fees and other deductions that illegally drop pay below the minimum wage.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How low can fast-food greed go? So low that the top bosses at headquarters play a sleazy game of hide and seek, pretending that they have nothing to do with this ripoff. Personnel practices, they airily claim, are left to local franchisees, who are “independent business owners.” Bovine excrement! Corporate central dictates how much mustard each franchise can put on a bun, so to think that it doesn’t monitor every dime in payroll is a ludicrous lie.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a recent survey of fast-food workers, 9 out of 10 said they’ve had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/02/3422111/wage-theft-poll-mcdonalds/" style="text-decoration: none;">wages stolen by their bosses</a>. This thievery has become business as usual, and it’s worse than shameful – it’s slimy. For more information, go to the National Employment Law Project:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nelp.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">www.nelp.org</a>.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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<div class="story-date"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden" style=""><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-01-16T15:33:00-08:00">January 16, 2014</span></span></span></span>  |  </font></div>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fortune magazine loves <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/rankings/?iid=F_Sub">rankings</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[3]</span>: the richest businesses, top business celebrities, 50 most powerful women, and so on. But one thing you won’t find in Fortune's 2013 list of the “100 Best Companies To Work For” is that number <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2013/list/">65</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[4]</span>,<b> Darden Restaurants—owner of the nation’s biggest sit-down dining chains with 2,000 restaurants—is being sued in a class action in federal court for wage theft and <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-01-09/business/os-darden-lawsuit-20140109_1_darden-restaurants-lawsuit-plaintiffs">nearly 20,000</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[5]</span> servers and bartenders have signed on. </b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That’s not the only big suit Darden faces for underpaying servers—not letting let them punch the clock when they start working, assigning them to do other set-up tasks without pay, or not sharing tips, as the legal <a href="http://dardenlawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FIled-Second-Amended-Collective-Action-Complaint.pdf" target="blank">complaint</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[6]</span> states. Another similar wage theft class action suit, filed in New York in 2011, has been <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-01-09/business/os-darden-lawsuit-20140109_1_darden-restaurants-lawsuit-plaintiffs" target="blank">joined</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[5]</span> by 500 workers.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet in each year that this embarassing litigation unfolded—2011, 2012, 2013—Fortune repeatedly put Darden on its 100 best workplace list. Darden ranked 97th in 2011, 99th in 2012, and 65th in 2013. “What makes it so great?” the magazine’s most recent listing <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2013/snapshots/65.html?iid=bc_lp_arrow1" target="_blank">asks</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[7]</span>. “The parent of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and six other restaurant chains employs 135,000 part-timers, who are eligible for low-cost health insurance.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, beyond the fact that Darden’s critics have <a href="http://rocunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ROC_DardenRep2012Proof.pdf" target="_blank">documented</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[8]</span> that many part-time workers cannot afford the benefit that Fortune cites because of low pay, and Darden doesn’t offer hourly employees earned paid sick days, there is something even more eyebrow-raising about its Fortune “Best Company” trophy: Darden essentially has been buying it and then bragging about it.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Once again, we’re honored,” CEO Clarence Otis <a href="http://investor.darden.com/investors/news-releases/press-release-details/2012/Darden-Restaurants-Named-to-Fortunes-100-Best-Companies-To-Work-For-List-For-Second-Consecutive-Year/default.aspx" target="blank">said</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[9]</span> in 2012. Exactly how Darden finessed this credential—at a time when the company is <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-01-13/business/os-darden-barington-capital-20140113_1_darden-restaurants-orlando-based-darden-darden-stock" target="blank">under attack</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[10]</span> by Wall Street for <a href="http://beta.fool.com/traderzach/2013/06/26/darden-restaurants-struggling-with-affordability/38459/" target="_blank">poor profits</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[11]</span> and may sell off some brands, which would toss thousands of employees to the cost-cutting winds—is a version of what lobbyists call “pay-to-play.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bottom line, as <a href="http://7wallst.com/" target="blank">24/7wallst.com</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[12]</span> <a href="http://247wallst.com/investing/2011/02/10/why-the-100-best-companies-to-work-list-is-useless/print/" target="blank">noted</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[13]</span>, is not just that Fortune’s ratings are “useless,” but how this ratings game brings together corporate vanities and fawning publications in a charade that papers over how real-life workplace issues have led nearly 10 percent of a supposedly “Best Company” to sue management over padding profits by wage theft.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These warm and fuzzy public relations moments… are based on sloppy research by the list creator,” 24/7wallstreet <a href="http://247wallst.com/investing/2011/02/10/why-the-100-best-companies-to-work-list-is-useless/print/" target="_blank">reported</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[13]</span> after a six-week investigation, and are “tainted by financial relationships that violate the best practices of the polling industry.”</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Curiously, Fortune doesn’t rank America’s best workplaces. Since 1998, that task has been <a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-companies/100-best-companies-to-work-for" target="blank">outsourced</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[14]</span> to the Great Place To Work Institute (GPWI), a San Francisco company created in 1992 by ex-business journalists who describe <a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.com/robert-levering" target="blank">themselves</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[15]</span> as progressives. Co-founder Robert Levering opposed the Vietnam War, attends Quaker meetings, hikes and listens to classical music—and now leads a successful private company that grades big corporations for social responsibility.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We start with a profound respect for organizations considered by their employees to be great workplaces,” wrote Levering in an <a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.com/about-us/why-we-do-what-we-do" target="_blank">open letter</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[16]</span>on its website. “The leaders of these companies are our heroes, and we stand in awe of what those organizations represent — beacons of hope in what is too often a sea of workplace mediocrity.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Behind this progressive veneer </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">is a company that has made millions from marketing its services to several hundred U.S. companies with more than 1,000 employees. For fees that start at several thousand dollars, firms can be included in those ranked as “Best Companies” for Fortune and other media worldwide. GPWI offers social responsibility assessments and audits for more fees. It holds annual best workplace conferences, attended by firms that bought GPWI services, where executives—such as Darden CEO <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yaDpx2a5U" target="_blank">Clarence Otis</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[17]</span>—are featured as keynote speakers.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There were 11,327 U.S. firms with 1,000 or more employees in 2008, according to the most recent Census Bureau <a href="http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html" target="blank">data</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[18]</span>. In 2012, only 280 of these companies paid GPWI to participate in its best workplace contest, Darden’s press release <a href="http://investor.darden.com/investors/news-releases/press-release-details/2012/Darden-Restaurants-Named-to-Fortunes-100-Best-Companies-To-Work-For-List-For-Second-Consecutive-Year/default.aspx" target="blank">said</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[9]</span>. Thus, it would be more accurate to say that Darden ranked 65th out of the less than 3 percent of all eligible businesses that could have been surveyed—if GPWI looked at all big U.S. corporations. Needless to say, sizing up a small sliver of America’s biggest companies—and only those that pay for the privilege—is not how Fortune or GPWI portrays it.     </font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Other firms may offer competitive products and services, but Great Place to Work has no competitors,” Levering’s “<a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.com/about-us/why-we-do-what-we-do" target="_blank">Why we do what we do</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[16]</span>” website declaration states. “No other organization shares our unique social mission. Others may help companies make marginal improvements in their workplaces, but we endeavor to help organizations transform their cultures. Great workplaces are qualitatively different because of the impact of trust on workplace relationships.”</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trust is not the word that comes to mind when reading accounts of workplace issues at <a href="http://dardenlawsuit.com/" target="blank">DardenLawsuit.com</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[19]</span> or in reports by Darden critics such as the <a href="http://rocunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ROC_DardenRep2012Proof.pdf" target="blank">Restaurant Opportunities Center United</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[8]</span>. You would think GPWI would be aware of litigation facing Darden, especially the class action <a href="http://dardenlawsuit.com/news/in-the-news/" target="blank">filed</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[20]</span> in 2012 in federal court in Florida that initially <a href="http://dardenlawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FIled-Second-Amended-Collective-Action-Complaint.pdf" target="blank">listed</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[6]</span> 50 servers in 18 states, mostly women, for wage theft at five restaurant chains: Bahama Breeze, Longhorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Seasons 52. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Darden was sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires employees be paid for hours worked, earn at least minimum wage, get overtime for more than 40 hours, and not be fired for filing a complaint—retaliation. Since its filing, almos<b>t 20,000 current and ex-employees have become plaintiffs,</b> the Orlando Sentinel <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2014-01-09/business/os-darden-lawsuit-20140109_1_darden-restaurants-lawsuit-plaintiffs" target="_blank">reported</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[5]</span> in early January. A Darden spokesman said that this represented less than 10 percent of the 215,000 eligible employees, saying that was “well below average for these types of collective actions.”...</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/a-book-and-movement-that-will-change-how-you-eat">http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/a-book-and-movement-that-will-change-how-you-eat</a></font>

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<p class="byline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://grist.org/author/susie-cagle/" title="Posts by Susie Cagle">Susie Cagle</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mississippi is just the kind of place one might expect to find a b</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">acklash against the "organic agenda.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Apparently spurred on by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (</span><a href="http://grist.org/news/nyc-judge-throws-out-bloombergs-big-sugar-drink-ban/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">newly tossed out</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) pet ban on big sodas, Mississippi is currently on the verge of passing a bill that would bar every local government in the state from requiring that restaurants post calorie counts or cap portion sizes.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A far-reaching, big-government bill to counter other far-reaching, big-government bills? Uh, sure, Mississippi.��<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill">NPR has the full scary deets</a>:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The Anti-Bloomberg Bill” garnered wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature in a state where one in three adults is obese, the highest rate in the nation.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican. It was the subject of<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>intense lobbying by groups including the restaurant association, the small business and beverage group, and the chicken farmers’ lobby.</b></font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Cashion, executive director the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association, says the bill is a direct reaction to Bloomberg-style government intervention in public health.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options,” Cashion says. “Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace.”</font></p>

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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cashion is on a real free-market trip! But free markets and consumer demands always seem to go hand in hand with business profits, and Cashion’s loyalties are with the restaurants, not with the people who eat at them. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.msra.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=104">Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association’s website</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>proclaims that the “industry is represented by a team of government affairs experts that is dedicated to protecting you from harmful legislation while promoting legislation that will benefit the industry. We estimate that our Government Affairs victories have saved the average restaurant over $10,000 over the past 4 years.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn’t a story about how Mississippians don’t want to know what they’re eating. It��s yet another example of business buying government — the food business has proven to be pretty good at that over the years. And in that way, it’s hardly news at all.</font>

<a href="http://grist.org/news/mississippi-poised-to-pass-anti-bloomberg-bill-banning-healthy-food-regs/">http://grist.org/news/mississippi-poised-to-pass-anti-bloomberg-bill-banning-healthy-food-regs/</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://grist.org/list/taco-bell-is-making-its-meat-healthier-by-refusing-to-call-it-meat/">http://grist.org/list/taco-bell-is-making-its-meat-healthier-by-refusing-to-call-it-meat/</a></font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://grist.org/news/mcdonalds-new-sustainable-fish-is-surprise-not-so-sustainable/</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/papa-johns-obamacare-pizza_n_1752126.html?view=print&comm_ref=false">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/papa-johns-obamacare-pizza_n_1752126.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</a></font>

<div class="byline economy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.alternet.org">AlterNet</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></span></span></span> / By <a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/lauren-kelley" style="">Lauren Kelley</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="">[2]</span></font></div>

<h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Food Companies Run by Radical Right-Wingers</font></h1>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all the Oreo Cookies out there – companies that support gay rights, if only because doing so is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/156103/salvation_army_learns_what_oreo_cookies_already_knows%3A_americans_like_groups_that_support_gay_rights/"> good for business </a><span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> – there are plenty of food companies that have not come around on progressive social issues. In fact, a number of food companies are owned by far right-wingers who’ve spent significant money opposing gay rights, abortion rights, and other important causes and funding attack ads against left-leaning politicians.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The companies in question include many popular chain restaurants that you may eat at occasionally, or even all the time. It’s wise to know where your dining dollars are going.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To that end, here are five food chains that are helmed by owners who support right-wing politics.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>1. Chick-fil-A</strong></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It won’t be news to many readers that Chick-fil-A’s owner is deeply entrenched in conservative politics and social issues. The chain has been in the news many a time for its owner’s anti-gay attitudes, in particular.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest Chick-fil-A hubbub has been especially high-profile. Chain president Dan Cathy, who is the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, said in <a href="http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38271">a recent interview</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> with the <em>Baptist Press </em>that “as an organization we can operate on biblical principles.” Asked about the company’s support of the "traditional family,” Cathy answered, “Well, guilty as charged....We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit....We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though Chick-fil-A’s attitudes were no secret, this was a bold statement. Unsurprisingly, a strong backlash led by gay rights supporters has ensued. (Meanwhile, the anti-gay side has been vocal in its support of the company.)</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://shortformblog.com/post/27564875234/dan-cathy-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-response">In response</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> to the controversy, the company didn’t apologize, but it did spotlight its employee nondiscrimination policy and said that from now on it will “leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carl’s Jr. founder Carl Karcher, who died in 2008, had been a supporter of anti-abortion causes <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-29/local/me-556_1_carl-karcher">for decades</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>. In particular, Karcher was fond of funding the anti-choice group Operation Rescue. He also had a mean anti-gay streak as well. From the <a href="http://www.alternet.org/He%2520was%2520reviled%2520by%2520abortion%2520rights%2520activists%2520for%2520his%2520contributions%2520to%2520anti-abortion%2520groups%2520and%2520his%2520oft-repeated%2520story%2520about%2520talking%2520a%2520Carl%2527s%2520Jr.%2520employee%2520out%2520of%2520an%2520abortion.%2520Gay%2520rights%2520groups%2520dubbed%2520his%2520hamburgers%2520%252522bigot%2520burgers%252522%2520after%2520Karcher%2520supported%2520a%25201978%2520proposition%2520that%2520would%2520have%2520allowed%2520school%2520boards%2520to%2520fire%2520teachers%2520who%2520were%2520gay%2520or%2520advocated%2520homosexuality."> AP story</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span> that followed his death:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was reviled by abortion rights activists for his contributions to anti-abortion groups and his oft-repeated story about talking a Carl's Jr. employee out of an abortion. Gay rights groups dubbed his hamburgers "bigot burgers" after Karcher supported a 1978 proposition that would have allowed school boards to fire teachers who were gay or advocated homosexuality.</font>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>3. Domino’s Pizza</strong></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like Karcher, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan is an unapologetic supporter of anti-choice groups, including Operation Rescue, Right to Life, Priests for Life, and the Committee to End State-Funded Abortion in Michigan. (Domino’s itself has <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/dominos.asp">noted</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span> that it does not, as a company, support “either side of the reproductive rights issue.”)</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monaghan is a devout Catholic who also founded Ave Maria University. It’s said that he was inspired by a visit to the Vatican in the 1980s to found the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00348045">Ave Maria List</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>, an anti-choice PAC.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>4. White Castle</strong></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White Castle joins Carl’s Jr. on the list of beloved burger joints with right-wing ties. According to a recent <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/19/543801/consumer-brands-conservative-attack-ads/">ThinkProgress report</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> about companies that have helped bankroll right-wing attack ads, White Castle has given $25,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, a group linked to House Speaker John Boehner that is supporting conservative candidates in the November election.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>5. Waffle House</strong></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Waffle House (or Awful House as I used to call it growing up) is also mentioned in the ThinkProgress <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/19/543801/consumer-brands-conservative-attack-ads/">report</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span>. The breakfast joint has given $100,000 this election cycle to the Karl Rove super PAC American Crossroads. <em>Mother Jones</em>’ Tim Murphy <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/karl-roves-250k-mystery-donor-revealed">reported on</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> the donation:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is surprising because one doesn't normally associate Big Waffle with big scary super-PACs, but also not that surprising: CEO Jim Rogers Jr. is a longtime supporter of Republican causes, and the company's political action committee has given exclusively to Republicans (in considerably more modest quantities). His ties to Romney date back to 2006, when he <a href="http://www.gaformitt.com/2006/12/governor-romneys-team-in-georgia.html">joined</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span> the finance team of Romney's political action committee, Commonwealth PAC.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So there you have it. The next time you go out to eat at one of the above restaurants, know that your burger and waffle dollars might eventually end up funding anti-gay, anti-choice or other conservative causes.</font></p>

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[4] http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38271

[5] http://shortformblog.com/post/27564875234/dan-cathy-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-response

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[8] http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/dominos.asp

[9] http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00348045

[10] http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/19/543801/consumer-brands-conservative-attack-ads/

[11] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/karl-roves-250k-mystery-donor-revealed

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<h1 class="node-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You Won't Believe What the Food Industry Is Doing to Keep Americans Hooked on Junk</font></h1>

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<p dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the exposure of troubling obesity rates, outrage over undisclosed genetically engineered wheat (and other) crops, the successful worldwide March Against Monsanto effort in May and statewide bans of GE crops that followed, the US citizenry is expanding its awareness and concern about food health. The junk food industry is responding by getting sneakier in its tactics to entice, exploit and beguile people into consuming its concoctions.

Here are a few of the most disturbing deceptions the industry is using to keep Americans hooked on its junk.

<strong>1. Branding Processed Foods to Look “Natural”</strong>

Those grill marks on your burger? Not real. They were put there by the factory, just like a pre-torn blue jean purchased at a name-brand store. Junk food companies are branding their foods to have a more natural, homemade appearance—and the painful, Orwellian doublespeak-style irony is that to do so actually requires more processing than ever.

Rather than switch to ingredients that are actually healthier and less processed, food engineers at companies with notoriously processed products—namely Kraft, Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Domino’s, among others—are responding to concerns surrounding overly processed foods with an unhealthy and deceiving facade of healthy looking foods.

Kraft Foods engineers spent two years manufacturing a Carving Board line process that would create uneven turkey slabs, and Wendy’s intentionally created curvier “natural squares” out of perfectly square beef chunks so the squares would appear less processed.

In an article titled “Food Engineers Now Making Your Burger Look Cool, Casual, Real” Gawker reported:</font></p>

<p dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, the Egg White Delight McMuffin at McDonald's is going for a squiggly circle rather than the disturbingly perfect, round animal product disc that is characteristic of the Egg McMuffin. Domino's pizza churners are instructed to tweak the perfect rectangles on their "Artisan Pizzas" to achieve a natural crudeness of homemade pies.</font></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, Gawker reports that Hillshire Brands Company—deceptively known as Hillshire Farms—is working to achieve the “wholesome” look. After customers requested a “grainer appearance” of the company’s poultry wafers, their factory processes began to dye the edges of the meat slices with caramel food coloring. According to Gawker, Hillshire’s vice president of marketing, Reggie Moore, said “it's crucial to always be adapting their food chunks to fit changing standards of appearance, as the definition of 'natural' changes from customer to customer.”

<strong>2. Marketing to Children Under Guise of Charity</strong>

Anna Lappé is a mother and food health educator, known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. She spoke in March at TedX Manhattan on behalf of her group, Food Mythbusters, about ways to combat the fast food industry’s marketing to kids.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity—proven to cause diabetes and other serious health conditions—has more than doubled in the last 30 years. More than a third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese in 2010, and the numbers are increasing.

“What children are enticed to consume today has truly life-and-death consequences,” Lappé told AlterNet.

While the fast food industry reported spending less on marketing to kids to the FCC, a discerning look at the numbers in the report will show otherwise. Rather than advertise less, the industry is using sneakier, less traditional channels to market to young audiences, like social media, branded “advergaming” websites and “philanthro marketing.”

Lappé says following her TedX Mahattan talk she received an email from a concerned parent. Her third-grader’s class had taken a lunchtime field trip to McDonalds to hear from Ronald the clown about Ronald House Charities.  

“The trip was under guise of charitable giving, but what it meant in effect was two third-grade classes, during the school day, going to McDonalds to eat lunch with their teachers,” Lappé says.

Lappé says that kind of under-the-radar “philanthro marketing” is a common tactic for fast food companies to reach young audiences, and points out that while it exposes kids to fast food brands, it is not reported as “marketing” to the FCC and other regulating organizations.

Food companies are also using the Internet and social media to keep in touch with youth, including some websites, like McDonalds’ Ronald.com, that are marketed to kids as young as preschool-aged.

“They're called advergames, but they're videogames embedded in websites,” says Lappé. She adds that, while marketing to kids is inherently unethical, social media marketing is worse because it is under the radar and all but unregulated.

“Children are unable to distinguish between what is entertainment, educational material, and advertising,” she says. “My particular issue with social media marketing to kids is that the technology around social media is advancing at such a fast pace—much faster than advocates can monitor it, much faster than regulators can keep up with it—so that you have this space of marketing to kids that’s increasingly unregulated.”

<strong>3. Manufacturing Addiction</strong>

It is no coincidence that so many people are obese, and despite widespread knowledge that it’s bad for you, many people continue to crave junk food. Junk food companies have got it down to a science. They are creating “feel-good food” that is manufactured to include just the right combination of the sugar, fat and salt our limbic brains love.

In his article, “The Jargon of Junk Food,” Paul McFedries breaks down the language of the junk food industry to show just how scientific and calculated the industry’s methods are for keeping people addicted.

“Processed-food companies increasingly turn to their legions of scientists to produce foods that we can’t resist,” he writes. McFedries notes that he is “indebted” to <em>New York Times</em> reporter Michael Moss, particularly for his fascinating new book <em>Salt Sugar Fat</em>, for many of the following terms:</font></p>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Pillar Ingredients</strong>—Salt, sugar, and fat are the Pillar Ingredients, and the industry strategically combines the three to keep you hooked.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Bliss Point</strong>—If we crave pillar ingredients so much, why not just crank them up as much as possible? It turns out there is an optimum amount of salt, sugar, or fat the human brain likes best, and it is called the bliss point.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Mouthfeel</strong>—This is literally the way food feels inside a person’s mouth; junk food industry scientists also adjust factors like crunchiness to produce a mouthfeel that consumer most crave.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Flavor Burst</strong>—Technologists alter the size and shape of salt crystals, so that they induce a flavor burst that “can basically assault the taste buds into submission.”</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Vanishing Caloric Density</strong>—Underlying all junk-food science is vanishing caloric density, which is the process by which the food melts in your mouth so quickly that the brain is fooled into thinking it is consuming fewer calories than it actually is. The packaged-food scientists want to avoid triggering sensory-specific satiety, the brain mechanism that tells a person to stop eating when it is overwhelmed by flavors. The goals are either passive overeating, which is the excessive eating of foods that are high in fat because the human body is slow to recognize the caloric content of rich foods, or auto-eating: that is, eating without thinking or without even being hungry.</font></li>

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<p dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Moss interviewed Jeffrey Dunn, who in 2001 directed more than half of Coca-Cola’s $20 billion in annual sales as president and chief operating officer. In the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all">article,</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," Moss writes:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[Dunn] drew from the bag of tricks that he mastered in his 20 years at Coca-Cola, where he learned one of the most critical rules in processed food: The selling of food matters as much as the food itself."</font></p>

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<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/person-communication">Person Communication</a> <span class="print-footnote">[28]</span>,</font></div>

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<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/reggie-moore">Reggie Moore</a> <span class="print-footnote">[30]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/south-america">south america</a> <span class="print-footnote">[32]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/united-states">united states</a> <span class="print-footnote">[33]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/caramel-food-coloring">caramel food coloring</a> <span class="print-footnote">[34]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/food-brands">food brands</a> <span class="print-footnote">[35]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/food-chunks">food chunks</a> <span class="print-footnote">[36]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/food-engineers">food engineers</a> <span class="print-footnote">[37]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/food-feels">food feels</a> <span class="print-footnote">[38]</span>,</font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/food-health-educator">food health educator</a> <span class="print-footnote">[39]</span>,</font></div>

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