Please Don’t Start Eating Healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry

[DamianTV]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/

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And pharma industry has "no comment" on this probably.

[DamianTV]

And pharma industry has "no comment" on this probably.

Of course not. Media Blackout is what they think is the best way to respond. Even to dispute an article like this gives it credibility. It works like this. You have several types of Psychology.

Direct Psychology: Vote for so and so. Buy such and such.

Reverse Psychology: Dont vote for so and so. Dont buy such and such.

Blackout Psychology: If we didnt acknowledge something, it doesnt exist.

[FrankRep]

Big Government to the Rescue! Yay!!




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In 2009, Congress commissioned the Inter-agency Working Group (IWG) to develop standards for advertising foods to children. The IWG included the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Congress identified these organizations as having “expertise and experience in child nutrition, child health, psychology, education, marketing and other fields relevant to food and beverage marketing and child nutrition standards.”

We were dismayed when the IWG released its report in 2011. The guidelines said that foods advertised to children must provide “a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet.” For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”

This report was potentially devastating. These organizations, experts in nutrition, were officially outlining what constituted “a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet.” Thankfully, we have a ton of money and were able to use it to get the IWG to withdraw the guidelines.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/

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According to the General Mills letter, if everyone in the US started eating healthfully, it would cost us $503 billion per year! That might affect our ability to pay CEOs like General Mills’ Ken Powell annual compensations of more than $12 million (http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2012/08/09/ceo-pay-general-mills-ken-powell.html).

That could also hurt the Trillions of dollars that are being spent on Iraq/Afghan freedom spreading/reconstructions.

Organic / healthy foods get much cheaper once their consumption volumes multiply and subsidy for less helthy choices is pulled.

[DamianTV]

According to the General Mills letter, if everyone in the US started eating healthfully, it would cost us $503 billion per year! That might affect our ability to pay CEOs like General Mills’ Ken Powell annual compensations of more than $12 million.


That could also hurt the Trillions of dollars that are being spent on Iraq/Afghan freedom spreading/reconstructions.

Broken Window Fallacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJEaFpS9ls

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Broken Window Fallacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJEaFpS9ls

A fallacy is destroyed in this clip.