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VANI HARI: Anheuser-Busch and Miller Coors, What's Hiding In Your Beer? (Original Post) proverbialwisdom Jun 2014 OP
From the taste of Budweiser one ingredient is probably doc03 Jun 2014 #1
ABC NEWS: What's in Your Beer? Fish Bladder and Antifreeze Ingredient? proverbialwisdom Jun 2014 #2
24 hours to get Anheuser-Busch to post their ingredients; CSPI was trying for 3 decades. proverbialwisdom Jun 2014 #3

proverbialwisdom

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2. ABC NEWS: What's in Your Beer? Fish Bladder and Antifreeze Ingredient?
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jun 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/food-babe-petitions-beer-makers-disclose-additives/story?id=24085296

What's in Your Beer? Fish Bladder and Antifreeze Ingredient?

June 11, 2014
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES via GOOD MORNING AMERICA


Food blogger Vani Hari's husband's favorite drink is beer and, just in time for his birthday this week, she is launching an online petition to ask the two biggest producers of American beer to list all their ingredients and brewing methods.

Hari claims some beers contain additives like high-fructose corn syrup, stabilizers and artificial flavoring, which have been linked to obesity, allergies, hyperactivity and gastrointestinal problems. She also alleges that big brewers use unappetizing things like propylene glycol – a foaming ingredient found in airplane deicing liquid – and even use fish swim bladders during brewing for clarity.

"That was alarming to me," Hari, 35, of North Carolina, told ABC News. "I thought beer was just hops, water, yeast, malt and barley."

The fact is no one but the manufacturer – not even Hari – knows for sure what's in beer or what’s used to make it, because the federal government does not require companies to disclose their ingredients or brewing processes. Hari is on a mission to get more transparency in the beer industry.
Her point is that consumers just don't know how their food and drink is made or what they put into their bodies.

"I just want full disclosure," she said, "not to change labels and go through government labels -- just to disclose it online so everyone can see."

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proverbialwisdom

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3. 24 hours to get Anheuser-Busch to post their ingredients; CSPI was trying for 3 decades.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 04:09 PM
Jun 2014
CNBCBeerNews @CNBCBeerNews · 29m
IN response to a petition by @thefoodbabe, @AnheuserBusch is now listing the ingredients for @Budweiser and @budlight http://bit.ly/1nz4vNi

Lindsay Abrams - Verified account 24m
?@readingirl
CSPI was trying for 3 decades. MT @JohnNCoupland: @thefoodbabe is astonishing. 24 hours to get Anheuser-Busch to post their ingredients

CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest): https://www.cspinet.org
Lindsay Abrams is an assistant editor at Salon (had to look both up, lol)

Food Babe @thefoodbabe · 2h
BREAKING NEWS…I just received an email, a phone call and tweet from Anheuser-Busch. I spoke with their Vice... http://fb.me/1br4KvkkW

Food Babe @thefoodbabe · 4h
40k signatures and counting! Stop Hiding What's In Your #MysteryBeer @AnheuserBusch @MillerCoors! http://foodbabe.com/beer/ #FoodBabeArmy
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