Re: Are we protected from Junk Food Corporations?
From: Jeff (kidsdoc2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:36:34 -0400
"cde" <cde@cde.org> wrote in message
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> Jeff wrote:
> > "DonQuijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:4e4a3f58.0408291848.1b784f23@posting.google.com...
> parents--being uneducated--are just as victims as the kids. And
> >>blaming them would amount to never ever doing something.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, but the key is education, not stupid laws.
> >
> > Jeff
>
>
> Stupid laws created the problem. Revision of stupid laws might perhaps
> helps to solve it. Here are some key quotes from a recent article
> Harvard Magazine Online:
>
> http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html
>
> Ludwig:
> "There's the incessant advertising and marketing of the poorest
> quality foods imaginable. To address this epidemic, you'd want to make
> healthful foods widely available, inexpensive, and convenient, and
> unhealthful foods relatively less so. Instead, we've done the opposite."
Because people buy the unhealthy foods.
> Gortmaker:
> "The food industry's major objective is to get us to intake more food,"
> says . "And the TV industry's objective is to get us to watch more
> television, to be sedentary. Advertising is the action that keeps them
> both successful. So you've got two huge industries being successful at
> what they are supposed to do: creating more intake and less activity.
> And since larger people require more food energy just to sustain
> themselves, the food industry is growing a larger market for itself."
And I don't remember anyone forcing people to watch TV or go to eat
unhealthy food.
> Willett:
> "That industry spends billions of dollars on research... What we spend
> on nutrition education is only in the tens of millions of dollars
> annually. There's a huge imbalance, and it tips more and more in favor
> of the food industry every year. Food executives like to say, 'Just
> educate the consumer-- when they create the demand for healthier food,
> we'll supply it!' That's a bit disingenuous when you consider that they
> are already spending billions to 'educate' consumers."
>
> Ludwig questions farm subsidies of "billions to the lowest-quality
> foods"--for example, grains like corn ("for corn sweeteners and animal
> feed to make Big Macs") and wheat ("refined carbohydrates.") Meanwhile,
> the government does *not* subsidize far healthier items like fruits,
> vegetables, beans, and nuts.
I have no problem with subsidizing farmers. Just with making suing
restaurants for providing a legal and safe product, when taken in
moderation.
> Ludwig :
> "It's a perverse situation," he says. "The foods that are the worst for
> us have an artificially low price, and the best foods cost more. This
> is worse than a free market: we are creating a mirror-world here."
Then fix the problem with the price of the food.
Jeff
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