Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
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Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
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Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#2Amazing - is there anything they didn't do.
The same law firms seem to back tobacco and fossil fuel companies as well - a true axis of evil.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#3Amazing - is there anything they didn't do. The same law firms seem to back tobacco and fossil fuel companies as well - a true axis of evil.
There is a nice old comedy called "Thank You for Smoking". Worth watching if you haven't.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#4And this is different from all other marketing how?
If tobacco style marketing is a problem that needs to be solved, then 95% of marketing needs to be banned.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#5It seems similar to just regular marketing. Previously, beverages and drugs companies have used the same playbook, and data analysis just got better. Social sites are just the next step with even more behavioural data.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#6Ultra-processed is a meaningless word used to get media attention. The state of nutrition science is abysmal.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#7And this is different from all other marketing how? If tobacco style marketing is a problem that needs to be solved, then 95% of marketing needs to be banned.
Bill Hicks had a good advice to the marketing guys: "kill yourself" so I you're onto something here!
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#8They learned addiction and exploited sugar, fat, and salt with the rest of them.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#9If Americans only knew that "natural flavors", "artificial flavors", and "spices" are specialized, opaque, secret designer ingredients engineered by third-party companies from unknown substances used to addict people to the foods.
Re: Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
#10If you proposed global harmonisation of food to equalise costs and ensure equitable access to food, apart from "but that's socialism!" complaints nobody would mind. Wastage in food production and distribution is huge. Economies of scale are real.
What people object to here isn't the efficiency, it's the motivation and the profit.
I don't think US tobacco firms diversifying is bad, personally. I'd rather they sold food than cigarettes. But, they want to sell high fat, high sugar, high salt PROFITABLE foods to people worldwide, not actual nutritionally balanced good food (good as in healthy, not moral).
Ultra processed foods have a long shelf life. That's part of why they are efficient. If they applied the same logic to shipping soy protein, vitamin rich fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and dairy produce, would that be wrong just because they're called "Philip Morris"?