Re:Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain
by sneak on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:10PM
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The cost to people’s health is not caused by “the food industry”. It is caused, moment by moment, by those same people choosing to harm themselves.
Grocery stores still sell broccoli and chicken. People choose to buy oreos and croissants and other refined carbs. That’s not “the food industry”.
It’s variously described, but “consumer choice” and “market demands” don’t really capture it. It boils down to other adult humans, just like you and I, choosing what they want to spend their money on, choosing what foods they want to eat.
It is nobody’s place but the eater to tell them what they should or should not be doing. Full stop.
Grocery stores still sell broccoli and chicken. People choose to buy oreos and croissants and other refined carbs. That’s not “the food industry”.
It’s variously described, but “consumer choice” and “market demands” don’t really capture it. It boils down to other adult humans, just like you and I, choosing what they want to spend their money on, choosing what foods they want to eat.
It is nobody’s place but the eater to tell them what they should or should not be doing. Full stop.