Into the mouth of babes
Corporations don't care about your kids. They care about your money. They'll say pretty much anything to get your money.
They'll say that you should feed your baby a diet of processed sugar. That it's "proven" that it will have social and/or health benefits.
For example: in the 1970's Nestle suffered a scandal because their salespeople had told poor mothers that Nestle infant formula was better than breast milk. The poor mothers would spend what little money they had on food that was less nutritious for their baby. As a result children suffered malnourishment and some even died. Poor, undereducated mothers continue to breast feed less than wealthier, more educated mothers.
Nothing has changed.
Fruit Loops was recently labeled a "Smart Choice" food for being high in fiber. That's right. As if the crime of labeling puffs of sugar(44%) as cereal wasn't a great enough lie, now a bowl of milk-soaked candy is labeled good for you.
Apparently "Kellogg’s and other participating companies pay up to $100,000 for that seal." Bribery is a great way to get into the health foods industry.
Those who are sufficiently outraged can send letters to the doctors in charge of Smart Choices to ask them to stop prostituting their reputations to Kellogg's.
Fruit Loops may be a good choice for a snack or a dessert, but not for a breakfast food.
They'll say that you should feed your baby a diet of processed sugar. That it's "proven" that it will have social and/or health benefits.For example: in the 1970's Nestle suffered a scandal because their salespeople had told poor mothers that Nestle infant formula was better than breast milk. The poor mothers would spend what little money they had on food that was less nutritious for their baby. As a result children suffered malnourishment and some even died. Poor, undereducated mothers continue to breast feed less than wealthier, more educated mothers.
Nothing has changed.
Fruit Loops was recently labeled a "Smart Choice" food for being high in fiber. That's right. As if the crime of labeling puffs of sugar(44%) as cereal wasn't a great enough lie, now a bowl of milk-soaked candy is labeled good for you.Apparently "Kellogg’s and other participating companies pay up to $100,000 for that seal." Bribery is a great way to get into the health foods industry.
Those who are sufficiently outraged can send letters to the doctors in charge of Smart Choices to ask them to stop prostituting their reputations to Kellogg's.
Fruit Loops may be a good choice for a snack or a dessert, but not for a breakfast food.
I think I'm going to show both these ads to my freshmen. Sometimes I think they don't realize all the politics and money that go on behind the marketing rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking about this before I came upstairs and checked your blog. I think that our current food industry is literally designed by Satan. I'm not kidding. It is full of lies. It kills us slowly and painfully. It creates addictions.
ReplyDeleteFight the Devil— eat organic!
It may be more correct to say that the system was designed by those who worship money, that is to say, those who worship Satan.
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