Could straighter noodles help save the planet?

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Could straighter noodles help save the planet?

Posted Oct 24th 2007 2:08PM by Marisa McClellanFiled under: Business, Beef, Newspapers

Recently General Mills, the maker of Hamburger Helper, announced that they were going to do their part to save the planet by straightening out the noodles in boxes of Hamburger Helper.  Their thinking was that smoother noodles will take up less packaging because they settle together more easily.  That will in turn make it possible for them to make the boxes smaller and then move more HH in each shipment.  Problem solved!The folks over at the Environmental News Network have a bone to pick with General Mills.  They say that tweaking the shape of the noodles will not have a significant impact on the health of the environment.  ENN argues that until large companies like General Mills take a holistic look at what they make, how they make it and what they make it with, they won't have more than a drop of impact in the bucket of sustainability. 

 

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41. Really.. lets get real in this whole thing

Get rid of all the processed foods out there

and go back to eating right and healthly.

The solution would be less illness and

less stuff to throw away.

Simple solution to many of our issues here

on planet earth.

Posted at 1:52AM on Oct 29th 2007 by Oh good Grief

42. Even better cut the size to envelope put in the spices and mix's and cut 2/3 oo the price(i'll buy the noodles) we both save money and the envorment....

Posted at 2:02AM on Oct 29th 2007 by Fredo

43. ah hamburger helper! a food created for lazy white women!

Posted at 2:57AM on Oct 29th 2007 by sean

44. processed garbage designed for lazy white women!

Posted at 3:01AM on Oct 29th 2007 by sean

45. i have been a cook for 33 years now. hell just cook the dame box too. it will let you pass it better plus it will eat just as good and you save mony on tt paper because it came in the meal . they have i seen so many person work so hard to do nothing at all. save the word sit on some c4 and let clean out your brian

Posted at 4:26AM on Oct 29th 2007 by clifton

46. Hey, why doesn't General Mills quit making that Bio-Hazard they call Hamburger Helper altogether? Idea ??Maybe we send a few skids of Gen. Mills Ham/Help to China and say, "look fellas, you keep sending all those lead painted toys to our kids, and we will start shipping Hamburger Helper to your wives in China. You boys eat a few chop stixs full a that stuff, and you will use enmamel paints forever."

Posted at 6:07AM on Oct 29th 2007 by Mike

47. For those of you wondering who would be eating
"crap" like HH..your answer is... several millions of people based on its half of the $495,000,000 in HH sold anually! Evidently its a popular product regardless of if any of us use it. I imagine it is used a lot by busy working mothers that cannot afford
the time and money much for more.

Posted at 11:09AM on Oct 29th 2007 by judyjjbod

48. Hamburger Helper is the worst tasting food, I don't know how anyone could eat it. I wouldn't.

Posted at 3:46PM on Oct 29th 2007 by barb

49. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN HELP "HAMBURGER HELPER" IS TO STOP MAKING IT! IT TASTES SO ARTIFICIAL NO MATTER WHAT YOU ADD TO IT. YUK!!

Posted at 3:53PM on Oct 29th 2007 by SANDRIANAH

50. So, we are getting a crappy noodle, less product and the same price. What a crock. Does General Mills think the American Consumer is completely stupid? I'll make my family my own "Hamburger Helper." Doing it from scratch isn't much more trouble than pouring that stuff out of a box, anyway.

Posted at 4:26PM on Oct 29th 2007 by michele

51. If they really want to do some good why not take some of the salt out

Posted at 12:52PM on Nov 1st 2007 by dennis

52. Money-Saving Tips for college students: I eat HH by itself without meat. Notice HH is similar to Tuna Helper? Meat you add is YOUR option, so instead of hamburger, you can make delicious variations by putting these cans into HH: Tuna, Salmon, White Chicken, Sardines, Spam, or try your favorite dog food or cat food. Meow

Posted at 5:27AM on Nov 2nd 2007 by WeirdAl Yankovich

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