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I do think this is an unfair characterization of food manufacturers. In a real sense, they only make what WE want to eat. And we only buy, for the most part, wh

I do think this is an unfair characterization of food manufacturers. In a real sense, they only make what WE want to eat. And we only buy, for the most part, what we WANT to eat. So there's a arms race that's been building ever since food became an industry. When one brand of bread adds sugar to their recipe, consumers love it and all the other brands must follow suit. Breaking this cycle will just as hard as breaking the industrial inertia towards fossil fuels. Opting out of this is hard, expensive and against our natural desires. Or, to reiterate my other post, "Soylent, FTW."

Jtsummers 11y ago
> they only make what WE want to eat This is the same justification for every consumable. If people didn't want X, companies wouldn't make X. Calling companies out for increasing our desire for their products, especially when that desire goes against our better interests (mental and physical health, in particular), is not unfair, it's smart. It gets people thinking about what they're doing and why so they can make better decisions, even when all the advertisement (obvious or not) is directing them away from what they should be doing.