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Have U.S. Food Corporations Betrayed American Consumers?
They engineered junk foods to be chemically addictive with predictable results on public health.
The motivations of criminal masterminds, as the great Sherlock Holmes once lamented, are usually mundane; money is a common denominator; jealously is as old as time itself. Hatred isn’t to be underestimated, either. Fire and ice, as Robert Frost called the forces vying to destroy the earth; each is great and would suffice.
In the end, the motivations of the disaffected young misanthrope driving around in a pickup full of fertilizer or the Ponzi scheme running day-trader aren’t the most important thing; both are a threat to public health, whatever their motivations. We are increasingly encouraged to view these threats to public health in terms of how they impact their victims, as opposed to the intent of the perpetrator. Fair enough.
With this in mind, it is time to take a hard look at food companies, in particular at the now billion-dollar corporations who intentionally engineered junk food to be chemically addictive.
New foods have been created in a laboratory, not a kitchen. Frankenfoods, like french fries with 33 ingredients- french fries are potatoes- and castoreum have been the inevitable result.