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Similarly to how addictive products like cigarettes cause considerable harm to society, food with additives to make it "taste so darn good" can cause great harm
by jniedrauer 7y ago
Similarly to how addictive products like cigarettes cause considerable harm to society, food with additives to make it "taste so darn good" can cause great harm.
As a simple example, potato chips are carefully engineered to cause overconsumption. Why is that not seen for what it is? Causing direct harm to consumers through the use of addictive products.
- jodrellblank 7y agoCould you say that comfortable chairs are causing direct harm to consumers by encouraging a sedentary lifestyle, and the more comfortable the chair is engineered to be, the worse this effect is? Potato chips which aren't nice, won't be good potato chips. Potato chips which are as nice as they can be will be indistinguishable from engineered to be moreish potato chips. Would America's love affair with cars be different if the government mandates that no car can cost more than $15,000 or be sold at a loss so they must all be small and basic, may not exceed 35mph, must be unheated, uncushioned and have no audio systems, but that public transport must be spacious, clean, well maintained, fast, on-time, subsidised, not overcrowded, etc.?