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>People know that vegetables can improve health More like: we were cajoled and coerced into eating vegetables by our parents, who were in turn cajoled by their
by twillerelator 16y ago
>People know that vegetables can improve health
More like: we were cajoled and coerced into eating vegetables by our parents, who were in turn cajoled by their parents, etc.
We then spend the rest of our lives rationalising this uncritical acceptance, which isn't the same thing as knowing something.
- zeteo 16y agoIt's even arguable that vegetables were critical 100 years ago, but no longer in days when you can get your fiber from breakfast cereal and vitamins in the form of a pill.
- zach 16y agoNot just our parents: http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/ http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/ This site is a production of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, founded and funded by the Produce Marketers Association.
- anigbrowl 16y agoLike the meat producers don't do the same thing?
- zach 16y agoIs there an eatbeef.gov?!
- anigbrowl 16y agoYou'd be surprised how much government money goes into marketing agricultural products in general, including various flavors of meat. Strangely, nobody ever talks about cutting any of these programs. http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&navID=FindanAMSProgram&rightNav1=FindanAMSProgram&topNav=Home&leftNav=&page=FindanAMSProgram&resultType=&acct=AMSPW http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...
- zach 16y agoWhat was surprising was seeing the marketing take the form of the Centers for Disease Control offering health advice.