The FDA 'allowing' hyper processed foods is a just what you get when you don't ban things pre-emptively or because you don't think people should be eating them.

The FDA 'allowing' hyper processed foods is a just what you get when you don't ban things pre-emptively or because you don't think people should be eating them. People blame science when a company does something they don't like and then credit the free market when it does something they do, forgetting that a huge public company doesn't do anything because it is the right thing, they do it because they think they will make money by doing it. We can either change the incentives that exist to sell people hyper processed food, or we can regulate everything to death, or we can figure out how to make people not want to eat it. I'm not sure which answer is the best one, but I think that making scientists the boogeymen for a human incentive problem is the wrong way to find it.