Let me ask you a question: When it comes to our food supply, what do you care about? Think about it for a second. Make a mental list. Now, let me ask you another question: Do you care about farmworker exposure to pesticides? I sure do, and I’m betting you do, too. But was it on your list? I’m betting it wasn’t…That 7 percent study was done by William Hallman, professor and chairman of the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University, who points out that “most of the research that is out there that has tried to gauge how much people care about such things [has] asked people to react to lists of foods that are nasty or nice, and there are certainly social-desirability biases baked into the responses to such questions.”
‘Salt to taste,’ taken with a grain of regret
The next time you’re looking to stir things up, ask food-savvy friends what happens when they are directed to “season with salt to taste.”…”People should reduce their salt a little,” says Paul Breslin, a Rutgers University professor of nutritional sciences often consulted as a guru of taste (receptors, not trends).
