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THANK YOU for posting this.  I am so completely disturbed and
disgusted by this -- especially from a company "known" for its
healthy foods.  Regular tree-huggers, those people are at Moosewood!
(I do not use "tree hugger" in a negative way -- I am one myself.)  I
personally have always thought Moosewood to be a great restaurant,
owned by great people ... and I own a couple of their cookbooks,
which I really like.

Just a few excerpts from the "about us" page on the Fairfield Farms website:

>We believe that convenience doesn't mean you have to sacrifice
>flavor, texture, or aroma. That is why we create fine, restaurant
>quality soups, entrees, and bakery products that we are proud to
>serve to our family and to yours . . . You can see our passion for
>great tasting food in the demanding selection process we maintain
>for all our ingredients as well as the uncompromising standards we
>uphold in creating every product. We prepare all our dishes using
>small batch culinary techniques rather than mass produced industrial
>methods. In every thing we do you will find rigorous attention to
>detail and a chef's insistence on achieving extraordinary results.

I say:  Ha!  "Rigorous attention to detail" ???  I think not.

I would like to add that I sent off my STRONG OPINIONS [about putting
"gluten-free" on foods that are KNOWN to not be truly gluten-free] to
the e-mail from the note they sent to Dawn:
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I encourage others to do the same.  A company like Moosewood should
know better.  And pass it along to other groups and lists, that they
might do the same.  Perhaps it will give Moosewood a good dose of our
power -- and encourage them either take that misleading information
off of their packaging, or MAKE truly GF foods!


At 8:53 AM -0400 6/25/04, Dawn Dutton wrote:

>I noticed our local supermarket (Shaws) was carrying some new entrees that
>appeared from their ingredient list to be GF.  I contacted the company and
>got the following response.
>
>Dawn
>________________
>
>Thank you for taking time to write to me with your inquiry about our
>gluten-free products.
>
>Yes, some of our products are gluten-free (meaning they do not contain
>wheat, barley, rye or oats), however because our facility also happens to
>produce wheat products, these gluten-free products should not be consumed by
>people with Celiac disease.
>
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* Please remember some posters may be WHEAT-FREE, but not GLUTEN-FREE *