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Food companies aren't poisoning people either. People are poisoning themselves. You can make the case that these "poisonous" snack foods are so appealing becau
by dfxm12 14y ago
Food companies aren't poisoning people either. People are poisoning themselves.
You can make the case that these "poisonous" snack foods are so appealing because they are cheap, because the government only gives subsidies to agriculture used in making junk food, but that's a stretch & still assumes there are no other options (like eating healthier or eating less).
- wpietri 14y agoYour implied intellectual model here is that people are entirely in control of their actions and are (or at least can be) perfectly rational about them. That's far from the truth. These junk food brands spend enormous amount of money on advertising, product placement, and other ways to influence consumers. Why? Because it works to manipulate them. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cognitive_biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cognitive_biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics Or talk to anybody who works in mass-market advertising. Or hell, just visit Vegas. If people were rational actors, Las Vegas would still just be a place where the Hoover Dam workers lived.