Potatoes Might Be the Thing Keeping French People So Skinny and other food and drink news

• Turns Out Potatoes Might Be the Thing Keeping French People So Skinny - "A team of McGill University researchers published a paper this week that includes what is likely the most shocking thing about potatoes any of us will hear all week: In an experiment, potato consumption was shown to decrease body weight gain."
• 2014: The Year in Restaurant Industry Scandals
• A Resolution For Foodies Who Want To Do Good: Pick A Campaign - "The biggest food companies in the world — think Nestle, PepsiCo, Mars, Smithfield, Cargill, General Mills, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Kellogg — are the major players in the food system. They control the supply chain from the raw materials to the packaging, and set the labor and environmental precedents of much of what we consume. There are now a wide range of campaigns aimed at pushing these global companies to respond more directly to consumers' concerns about everything from antibiotics to greenhouse gas emissions to labor abuses."
• Four-letter foodieism: Why nothing will ever be the ‘new kale’