Dear American Consumers

[digitS']

Please dont start eating healthfully.

Sincerely, the Food Industry

"(O)f the 100 most commonly consumed foods and beverages in America, 88 would fail the IWG's proposed standards." So you see? If you people start eating the way the nutrition experts at the CDC and USDA recommend that you eat, that would delegitimize almost 90 percent of the products we produce! Do you realize how much money that would cost us?

General Mills

Scientific American (link)

digitS'

 

[seedcorn]

While I understand the message, nothing would change. The food industry would just sell different fast foods. America will pay for convience. It's not on the suppliers, it's on the buyers. We support with our $$$$ what we want. We buy it, they will supply it.

 

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[NwMtGardener]

Oh yes!! Job security for me in the medical field with all the crap people put in their bodies!!

 

[digitS']

"When we are done we will probably see 20 percent change in the food supply in a year."

Researcher Barry Popkin, at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, on the creation of a huge map of what foods Americans are buying and eating. 20%/year?! Imagine if your diet changed at 20%/year.

(link)

Steve

 

[hoodat]

It isn't just the convenience. Processed foods are a cheap way to fill your belly so long as you place your finances over your health. I recently heard a slogan that stuck with me,"Pay the farmer now or pay the hospital later".

 

[curly_kate]

Hoodat - that is totally right on.

Seedcorn - as much as it depresses me, I agree with you. People don't have time - or think they don't have time - to make real food. The thing that drives me crazy is that just because something is packaged up all nice and tidy makes people think it's actually going to be easier. I read an article recently on how they sell fruit smoothies for kids, and naturally they are loaded with sugar and all of the good stuff - like the fiber - is gone. The author was saying that, as a parent, he liked them for his kids because of how 'easy and portable' they were. To which I wondered, how much easier and more portable can you get than a piece of fruit? Or putting a handful of Cheerios in a baggie instead of buying "Gerber Graduates?" People have started to believe that convenience is everything.

 

[peteyfoozer]

I almost choked when I saw my first package of "Uncrustables". Now that struck me as the height of laziness. What 5 yr old can't make his own PBJ and rip the crust off??

 

[NwMtGardener]

I almost choked when I saw my first package of "Uncrustables". Now that struck me as the height of laziness. What 5 yr old can't make his own PBJ and rip the crust off??

I thought the same thing!!! What a ridiculous product...when i want something quick & easy i make a PB&J - why would it have to get "easier"!?!

 

[so lucky]

I think that article that digit'S referenced has a link to an artaicle about the guy that helped invent "Lunchables" If you dont have little kids, you may not know what they are: a totally worthless packaged "meal" that is marketed to kids, to take to school for their lunch. It is about 99% sugar and chemicals. The man was feeling remorse after he quit working on that project.