‘Food Politics’
Food companies will make and market any product that sells, regardless of its nutritional value or its effect on health. In this regard, food companies hardly differ from cigarette companies. They lobby Congress to eliminate regulations perceived as unfavorable; they press federal regulatory agencies not to enforce such regulations; and when they don’t like regulatory decisions, they file lawsuits.
Like cigarette companies, food companies co-opt food and nutrition experts by supporting professional organizations and research, and they expand sales by marketing directly to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries–whether or not the products are likely to improve people’s diets”. Quote from Marion Nestle, author of “Food Politics”, University of California Press, 2002.
If you want to understand how politicians, lobbyists and food companies have totally corrupted our food chain in America, you should read Marion Nestle’s books. At the time “Food Politics” was printed, the author was the chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. When I finished reading this book six years ago, I was truly blown away.
Everything I suspected about fast food restaurants in my neighborhood, raising rates of obesity, type 2 Diabetes appearing in children under the age of five and our government not protecting it’s citizens was revealed to be TRUE. Our government actually helps food companies to deceive to us. Even reading a food label in the grocery is no guarantee that that you are being told the truth. I always laugh when I pick up a box of cereal and find “Dehydrated Cane Juice” listed as the second ingredient on the label. Folks this means that the 2nd highest percentage of ingredients in this box of cereal is plain old SUGAR!
Your government allows this corporate game playing with our foods. In the mean time, people are becoming diseased and are dying and don’t know why. Tell me why are two and three year old children developing type 2 Diabetes during the past 30 years at a rate that this country has never seen before? Why have heart attacks for women between the the ages of 34 and45 increased by 30% over the last 30 years. Look at our food industry in America. It is not your friend.
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