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Re:Inside the food industry by scholia on Sunday February 22, 2015 @10:38AM (#9089713)
Trans-fats? Interesting case where factory-based food engineering based on waste products was sold as a healthier alternative to "natural" products (butter, lard).

And while it's easy to blame P&G in retrospect, trans-fats had the support of the US government food administration, reputable scientists and academics.

As for lead in gasoline, that was a case where the US government was warned of the health hazards (and workers died of lead poisoning) but still allowed it.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/why-lead-use...

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Re:Inside the food industry by dragonwriter on Sunday February 22, 2015 @12:15PM (#9090034)
In both cases the government support was a result of active industry lobbying, so it's hard to see how it absolves the industry participants of responsibility.
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Re:Inside the food industry by scholia on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:18AM (#9093878)
I'm not excusing the industry lobbying: a lot of it was reprehensible. Still, a lot of America's bad nutrition advice came from bad (or at least, not very good) science.
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