This program talks about the way the policies of food corporations have led to a crisis of obesity worldwide, particularly in regions where the multinational corporate food peddlers have gained a toehold.
But it ignores one thing, which is condition of people's bodies and that of their children is their responsibility not that of the food corporations.
It is up to people to learn about the body, about nutrition and actually "feel" their bodies moods concerning food and change it.
Parents should take more responsibility here and press for cheaper healthier food, which for the most part involves substituting low starch vegetables starchy for grain, tubers and sugars.
I've seen some Tiktok videos about Americans who say migrating to Europe for work, they lost 40 pounds without changing the amount of food they ate, so US corporate food is to blame here. But still the effort and the responsibility and the persistence begins with parents.
Companies will always be companies, which is making as much money as they can within the legislative and regulatory frameworks, the laws and frameworks which they are always instrumental in creating and shaping, and find loopholes around.
Parents and consumers must be aware of this. Corporations are out to make money off you even if it harms you and your kids and leads to your premature death.
based on that logic it would be perfectly ok for all the food companies to lace their food with fentanyl?
or does the government bare some responsibility to regulate corporation and protect consumers from harmful business practices.
if you didn't have labeling laws and didn't have laws against addictive food additives why wouldn't all profit seeking corporations maximize shareholder value.
People have a duty to know what their bodies need, and make good choices for themselves. Expecting the government to do everything for them doesn't work.
Whether or not government exists or not, the primary responsbility is on the consumer. Just because companies sell it doesn't mean you have to buy it.
If the government doesn't enforce labels, sensible consumers can pool their funds and pay laboratories to analyze the food for them, and they can advice their friends and family if those food stuffs are decent enough.
Governments themselves are corporate entities whose chief executives seek employment with the very companies they are supposed to regulate.
Why do any intelligent consumers believe they can be relied on?
> Why do any intelligent consumers believe they can be relied on?
Because they know the reason for all those regulations: we started without them and people had such a bad time they decided restrictions on businesses were an improvement. And they were right, in all of human history there probably hasn't been a time when commercially produced food was safer than today.
> If the government doesn't enforce labels, sensible consumers can pool their funds and pay laboratories to analyze the food for them
We can do that either way, and it is in fact done.
But it ignores one thing, which is condition of people's bodies and that of their children is their responsibility not that of the food corporations.
It is up to people to learn about the body, about nutrition and actually "feel" their bodies moods concerning food and change it.
Parents should take more responsibility here and press for cheaper healthier food, which for the most part involves substituting low starch vegetables starchy for grain, tubers and sugars.
I've seen some Tiktok videos about Americans who say migrating to Europe for work, they lost 40 pounds without changing the amount of food they ate, so US corporate food is to blame here. But still the effort and the responsibility and the persistence begins with parents.
Companies will always be companies, which is making as much money as they can within the legislative and regulatory frameworks, the laws and frameworks which they are always instrumental in creating and shaping, and find loopholes around.
Parents and consumers must be aware of this. Corporations are out to make money off you even if it harms you and your kids and leads to your premature death.