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October 15th, 1998 - Updated July 20, 2009 - Dec. 15, 2009
Top Food Manufacturers
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David Lawrence Dewey

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Please write, email, phone or fax the food companies listed below and demand that they stop using any type of hydrogenated oils in their foods, that until they stop, you will not purchase their products. A written letter with at least your full name and address is better, but emails are just as good as long as you list your complete full name and city.

To help save you time, I have found the various contact information, including Presidents, email addresses, mailing address, telephone numbers of the top twelve companies. For the other compaines, I urge you to go to those websites and find where to write the company or email them to stop the use of hydrogenated oils in their food productions. Below is an example of the letter that you can use, simply copy and paste into your email.

Dear Sir:

I am writing concerning your use of hydrogenated oils, whether they be "fully" or "partially" in your food products. I have read the latest medical reseach findings concerning how hydrogenated oils of any type are harmful to the body in many ways. I am therefore writing you that I will no longer be purchasing any of your products that contain any oils as described above. I will also be telling my friends concerning this and urge them not to purchase these products.

Sincerely,


TOP PUBLIC U.S./CANADIAN FOOD & BEVERAGE COMPANIES
Based on 1996 food & beverage sales.
All figures in billions/millions of U.S. dollars.
  Sales Net Income
Rank
1996
Company 1996 1995 1996 1995
1 Kraft Foods is owned by
Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Kraft Foods, Inc.
Mr. Roger K. Deromedi - President
800 Westchester Ave.
Rye Brooks, New York 10573-1301
914-335-2500
Direct Fax # to Mr. Deromedi
914-335-4671
(800) 543-5335
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Monday through Friday.
Oscar Mayer: (800) 222-2323
Louis Rich: (800) 722-1421
Email
www.kraftfoods.com/html/email/email.html
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.kraftfoods.com
also
www.kraftinternational.com
69,204 66,071 6,303 5,450
2 PepsiCo Inc.
Roger A. Enrico
Chairman of the Board
Purchase, NY 10577
(914) 253-2000
Other Coporate Office
Frito-Lay, Inc.
7701 Legacy Drive
Plano, Texas
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.pepsico.com/
EmailPepsiCo@bestworld.com
31,645 30,255 1,149 1,606
3 Coca-Cola Co.
Charles S. Frenette
Senior Vice President
The Coca-Cola Company
P. O. Drawer 1734
Atlanta, GA 30301
Shareholders toll-free #
1-888-265-3747
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.cocacola.com/co
Emailwww.cocacola.com/co/equeries.html
18,546 18,018 3,492 2,986
4 ConAgra Inc.
Healthy Choice,
Banquet, Armour
and over 60
other Brands
Operates in
11 eleven countries
Philip B. Fletcher
Chairman of the Board
ConAgra, Inc.
One ConAgra Drive
Omaha, NE 68102-5001
(402) 595-4000
Sorry, no email address
INTERNET ADDRESS:
http://www.conagra.com/index.html
24,822 24,112 189 496
5 IBP Inc.
This is a meat
production co. only
INTERNET ADDDRESS:
www.ibpinc.com
12,539 12,668 199 258
6 Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS: www.budweiser.com
12,622 12,005 1,190 642
7 Sara Lee Corp
You'll be surprized
what this company owns
Sara Lee Corporation
Three First National Plaza
Chicago, IL 60602-4260
(800) 654-SARA
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.saralee.com
www.saralee.com/tools/suggestions/index.htm
18,624 17,719 916 804
8 H.J. Heinz Co.
Brands include
Weight Watcher Meals
William R. Johnson
President
H.J. Heinz Co.
600 Grant St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: 412-456-5700
Fax: 412-456-6128
Sorry, no email address
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.heinz.com
9,112 8,087 659 591
9 Nabisco Inc.
James M. Kilts - President
100 DeForest Avenue
P.O. Box 1911
East Hanover, NJ 07936-1911
1-800-NABISCO
Sorry, no email address
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.nabisco.com
8,889 8,294 17 295
10 CPC International Inc.
Best Foods Brands
Axel C.A. Krauss
President
Bestfoods
International Plaza
700 Sylvan Avenue
toll free # 800-338-8831
Coporate Number
201-894-4000
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.cpcinternational.com Emailwww.bestfoods.com/contact.htm
9,844 8,432 580 512
11 Campbell Soup Co.
Dale F. Morrison
President
Campbell Place
Camden, N.J. 08103-1799
phone 609-342-4800
fax 609-342-3878
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.campbellsoups.com
Emailwww.campbellkitchen.com/response1.asp
7,678 1,202 802 698
12 Seagram Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.seagram.com
9,747 6,399 3,406 736
13 Kellogg Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.kelloggs.com
6,677 7,004 531 490
14 Tyson Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.tyson.com
6,454 5,511 87 219
15 General Mills
1-(800) 328-1144
7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CST
Monday thru Fridays
General Mills, Inc.
P.O. Box 1113
Minneapolis, MN 55440
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.general-mills.com
email
www.generalmills.com/navigation/comments/
5,416 5,027 476 367
16 Quaker Oats Co.
INTERNET ADDRES:
www.quakeroats.com
5,199 5,954 248 724
17 John Pepper
Chairman and CEO
Procter & Gamble
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-983-1100
Fax: 513-983-4381
EMAIL:
www.pg.com/about/contact1.htm
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.pg.com
35,284 33,482 3,046 2,645
18 Hershey Foods
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.hersheys.com
3,989 3,691 273 282
19 Dole Food Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.dole.com
3,840 3,804 89 23
20 Hormel Foods Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.hormel.com
3,099 3,046 79 120
21 Interstate Bakeries Corp.
Charles A. Sullivan
Chairman & CEO
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-502-4000
Fax: 816-502-4155
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.irin.com/ibc/ Sorry, no email address
2,878 1,223 24 21
22 Dean Foods Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.deanfoods.com
2,814 2,630 -50 80
23 International Multifoods Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.multifoods.com
2,596 2,523 3 24
24 Chiquita Brands Internationa
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.chiquita.com
2,435 2,566 -51 9
25 Smithfield Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
2,384 1,527 16 28
26 Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.mapleleaffoods.com
2,342 2,248 31 -32
27 Ralston Purina Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
6,114 7,172 360 296
28 Warner-Lambert Co.
INTERNET ADDDRESS:
www.warner-lambert.com
7,231 7,040 787 740
29 Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.wrigley.com
1,836 1,755 230 224
30 Adolph Coors Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,732 1,680 43 43
31 George Weston Ltd.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.weston.ca
9,272 9,501 174 139
32 Earthgrains Company
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,661 1,665 -18 -7
33 McCormick & Company Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.mccormick.com
1,733 1,691 42 98
34 Hudson Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
Hudson Foods was closed Aug. 98 by the
U.S. Agriculture Dept. for meat repeated contamination of 1.2 million pounds of meat with the E Coli strain of bacteria

Read this story in Business Week.
1,378 1,201 23 36
35 American Brands Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.ambrands.com
11,579 11,367 487 540
36 Brown-Forman Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.brown-forman.com
1,807 1,680 160 149
37 Flowers Industries Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.flowersindustries.com
1,239 1,129 31 42
38 Savannah Foods & Industries Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,146 1,099 6 -3
39 Pilgrim's Pride Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,139 932 -7 -8
40 Canandaigua Wine Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,135 987 28 24
41 Cott Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.cott.com
1,005 924 25 -21
42 WLR Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
998 909 -5 16
43 Ault Foods Ltd.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.ault.com
989 950 9 11
44 Thorn Apple Valley Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
983 745 -22 5
45 Ralcorp Holdings Inc
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.ralcorp.com
1,027 1,013 -47 33
46 Colgate-Palmolive Co.
INTERNET ADDRES:
www.colgate.com
8,749 8,358 635 172
47 Seaboard Corp.
INTERNET ADDRES:
www.seaboardfarms.com
1,464 1,174 6 20
48 Foodbrands America Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.foodbrands.com
835 635 11 -34
49 Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.dreyers.com
792 679 7 -2
50 Curtice Burns Foods
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.curticeburns.com
739 749 -12 4
51 BC Sugar Refinery Ltd.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
623 612 21 5
52 Molson Companies
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.molson.com
1,061 1,078 -225 62
53 Imperial Holly Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.imperialholly.com
616 587 -3 -5
54 Michael Foods Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
616 537 -3 18
55 Schneider Corp
INTERNET ADDRESS:
.
614 605 -7 6
56 J.M. Smucker Co.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.smucker.com
529 511 29 36
57 Seneca Foods Corp.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.senecafoods.com
508 234 -10 1
58 Alexander & Baldwin Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
1,233 1,020 65 56
59 Lance Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
475 477 25 -7
60 Sanderson Farms Inc.
INTERNET ADDRESS:
www.sandersonfarms.com
455 393

-2 11
Totals............. 391,992 364,587

26,547 22,774
Source: Cahners Food and Lodging Group Research Dept.

Media Links To Write
"Why are you not reporting this?"
Media Links

Email Your Senators and Congressman
About This Deadly Food !

READ DL Dewey's
Previous Column
Hydrogenated Oils Are Silent Killers

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Copies of Movie Being Donated To Schools
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I am honored to have worked on this documentary as Content Consultant, Creative and Journalistic Consultant with Director, David Burton of Sir Rebel Films and Producer J. Thomas Wenzel III. This documentary exposes not only the facts and truth concerning how deadly hydrogenated oils and aspartame are to the human body, but the greed of corporate profits by the food industry at the expense of human health.

I have been writing about the deadly health effects of hydrogenated oils since 1996, the first main stream journalist to do so. Leading researchers were interviewed who will disclose in detail how hydrogenated oils cause a host of diseases in the human body. You can find out more about in the documentary. Keep up with current details about the film at: ingreedientsmovie.com.

Ride along on this culinary roller coaster as David sets the table with a cornucopia of leading researchers and the most respected scientists and healthcare professionals in the world. What you will discover is an alarming connection between what you put in your mouth and some of the most disgusting, unpalatable and life-threatening ailments known today! The three diseases most directly connected with the consumption of hydrogenated oil are heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. These afflictions are eventually deadly if one keeps consuming hydrogenated oils, but with some simple changes in food choices and a little bit of exercise, these diseases are extremely preventable.

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Two leading researchers and medical doctors from Harvard state in the film:

"This { hydrogenated oils } is really a toxic chemical that should not be in the food supply."

~ Dr. Walter Willett, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

"Two-thirds of these diseases, { heart disease and diabetes } would be eliminated if we consumed a healthier diet and exercised more".

~ Dr. Meir Stampfer M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

According to 2008 CDC data health care costs associated with heart disease and diabetes alone in the U.S., $448.5 billion or 52% of total U.S. health care costs is spent on heart disease and $174 billion or 20% of total health care costs on diabetes.

Cost Savings This represents a combined savings in health care costs of over $404 billion annually at a 65% cost savings. Over a ten-year period, this represents over $4 trillion dollars in health care cost savings.



I have started The American Health Reform grass roots campaign with Florida housewife, Greta Ferebee in an effort to send Petitions to Washington to ban SUCRALOSE, ASPARTAME, NEOTAME, MSG, HYDROGENATED OILS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP and all artificial and chemical preservatives, additives and dyes which are added in large quantities to the American food supply. - - -Read more about this effort, click here.

Do you care about your health, the health of your children, your family?
Then make sure you read my column:
Hydrogenated Oils - Silent Killers
Learn the truth about these deadly oils in our food supplies

Read about Greta Ferebee's and my efforts in a nationwide petition campaign to get these and other toxins out of the food supply. VISIT our website:

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One IMPORTANT thing we must do:

STOP
STOP PURCHASING PRODUCTS CONTAINING THESE TOXINS !
..... SEND A MESSAGE TO THESE CORPORATIONS
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH ! ....AND


stop
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