G
Guns Guns Guns
Guest
- Big Food is profit-driven. Don't be fooled into thinking a brand or the food company that owns it cares about you or your health.
- Think critically. Most claims and advertising by Big Food companies are meant to manipulate you, not educate you. Read your labels and do your research.
- There is no free lunch. Over the long-term, you always get what you pay for. Cheap food is very expensive once you add up the true costs -- like the taxes you pay to subsidize Big Food companies, health consequences like obesity or diabetes, the devastating harm to our environment, and the inhumane treatment of animals raised within the industrialized food system.
Huge, multinational food companies now dominate the landscape. Wielding far greater lobbying power and much deeper pockets, these companies have been very successful in stagnating food regulation.
Second, cost savings have been a key profit driver for the industry, but they've had a devastating impact on both food quality and food safety.
Think factory farming and GMOs, just to name a couple of examples.
Third, as consumers' health concerns have increased, processed food manufacturers have become even more aggressive in making dubious health claims or co-opting fad diets to market their brands and develop new products.
The net impact of this transformed landscape has been disastrous from a public health perspective -- with obesity rates skyrocketing and a never-ending flood of food recalls.
http://www.grist.org/food/2011-11-02-confessions-of-a-big-food-executive