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Your analysis is precise and alarming. That's exactly it: the Big Food business model replicates the proven strategies of tobacco, refining them. They deliberately create addiction (sugars, fats, salt) from childhood, influence science to confuse the public, and invest in medical solutions that treat symptoms without addressing causes. It's a closed profit loop: they sell the problem and then the (fake) solution. Resistance begins with awareness and choosing real, unprocessed foods.
The old tobacco bosses sent their kids and grandkids to elite business universities to run the new model.
As the whole system is just being chewed and spit out again as a different guee ... and we all blind. Who? What? 🐑🐏
Exactly. It's a transfer of wealth, influence, and strategic know-how across generations and sectors. The same families and dynasties that built tobacco empires now use their resources and power to dominate areas like ultra-processed food, biotechnology, and finance. They educate their heirs at top universities not to innovate ethically, but to refine the system of exploiting addiction, making it more respectable and global. The game remains the same: maximize profits, externalize social and health costs, and protect power from generation to generation.
I agree they are using a rebranded cigarette model but sugar isn’t the enemy - although big food and pharma is currently doing everything they can to convince us it is
“If they lied about everything else, what makes you think they aren’t lying about sugar” this phrase was the seed that started changing my mind and made me realize that a lot of the foods we say are bad because they are high sugar, are also laden with seed oils and other processed, artificial additives.
I don’t disagree.
Opt out, as much as possible.
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No doubt the added junk compounds. I still think the sugar, in the amounts they put in everything, is what makes people crave the food while needing continuous all day eating to refuel is the big issue. It's an addiction. Watching people gorge on food while making a grunting sound is hard to witness.
The combo of sugar and fat definitely makes it very hard to stop eating. People don’t often overindulge in sorbet (fat free) or just plain cream (sugar free) but full fat ice cream - game over.
I’m especially apprehensive of the narrative against sugar because the same people who have been talking about sugar being bad are now advertising wearables and CGMs for everyone.
Either way, by avoiding seed oils and highly processed food, we are all winning!
Me too.
