A little OT: Personally, nutritional bullshit like this is one of my biggest beefs with libertarianism (aka libertards). The honest to God truth is that corporations fill our food supply with harmful stuff like soy to shave a few pennies off their cost per unit, and libertarians will defend their right to do so to the death. And when it comes to economic issues like this, 99% of conservatives are identical to libertarians. I was ashamed to see conservatives criticizing Michelle Obama for trying to rid schools of sodas and candy bars, as if it they were mounting some gallant fight against communist tyranny.
Of course, most Americans have no idea. For the modest fraction that are aware, they have very little choice and even less power to influence the market in a healthier, more natural direction. Even the healthy crowd, aka naive white girls, just swaps one form of bullshit for another: soda is bad! fruit juice is healthy! Vitamin Water to the rescue!
Thanks for the link, Caligula. Anyone else have any instructive links on these matters?
Of course, most Americans have no idea. For the modest fraction that are aware, they have very little choice and even less power to influence the market in a healthier, more natural direction. Even the healthy crowd, aka naive white girls, just swaps one form of bullshit for another: soda is bad! fruit juice is healthy! Vitamin Water to the rescue!
Thanks for the link, Caligula. Anyone else have any instructive links on these matters?