Although I disagree with the ‘body positivity’ movement I am very surprised over the years the governments didn’t crack on the food industry the way they did otobacco companies.
Because this is what it is - the obesity epidemic is a result of food companies engineering food to be addictive the same way tobacco companies did with nicotine. In fact ‘body positivity’ plays into that the same way ‘be a free man’ advertising played a role in the popularity of Camel or Marlboro cigarettes.
So even though people say ‘just eat less’ the truth is you have billion dollar industry working very hard against you. What we should start with is no brand packaging for food deemed unhealthy according to nutritional values and taking a closer look at additives being added to food products (also taxing unhealthy foods much more).
I work for branded companies, I get what you mean.
But it's a pretty tough case to classify sugar or fat or high calorie foods the same as pure drug addiction stuff like booze or smokes. Which the gov still legally allows to be sold. Which is truly amazing, since on one hand they say these things are sin, yet once they figure out how to monetize and tax it, they're all for it.
IMO, I think a lot of issues stem from people just not being responsible and giving a shit in life. You dont need Tony Little looking like an ass on that exercise machine telling you eating lean beef and vegetables is better for you than Burger King.
For purely addiction stuff like I listed above (and that includes hard drugs like cocaine or meth or fentanyl pills), that shit becomes addictive over time. It's not like someone drinks beer for the first time and becomes an alcoholic over the weekend. Most people even hate smoking or drinking beer for the first time. But if a retard wants to some reason keep doing i making it an addiction, thats on them.
As for fattening food, people got choices. You can either buy McDonalds (like I did today!) or make a boring ham sandwich at home. One is healthier and cheaper, but if people are teased to buy tastier food and all they have to do is stand in line and someone makes it for you, and you got some money to give, many people will buy McD's.
If anyone wants to blame manufacturers for making crappy food, you can also blame retailers because ultimately they are the ones selling it. And what do you get on hot deals? Junk food. Why? Because they are a draw and high margin.
You know what else is high margin? Healthy shit like produce and meat
That bag of apples going for 99 cents/lb isn't costing the store 90 cents. Just because it's a staple kind of product doesn't always mean profits are thin. That bag of apples has a profit margin not any different than a bag of chips. It probably has a cost of 55-60 cents. If stores really cared about skewing people to buy more healthy stuff, they'd reduce prices on apples and lean chicken. But they don't because they also want to make profit.
And then what do stores do too to reinforce buying junky cheap stuff? They make their own store brand which is even cheaper. Which just helps compulsive junk buyers buy even more crap for the same amount of money. Go to a store and look at the cheap private label stuff. It's usually junky crap. Even junkier than the branded junk. It'll be 99 cent bags of chips, cookies, bargain tier pasta sauce, selling a case of pop for $1 cheaper than Coke or Pepsi etc...
I just know it
