Reply #14: If the cheapest, easiest to find food is deadly, I'm not sure it's wrong [View All]

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for the companies manufacturing it to take some responsibility for it.

I think there's a presumption among consumers about all products and not just food that your government looks out for you and that markets are fairl efficient: if the food was THAT bad, it wouldn't be available for purchase.

I think that the truth is that the food is pretty deadly and fast food companies have to go to huge lengths to disguise the fact their food is deadly.

I remember when I was ten or eleven, I had a family member whom I knew was a health nut. I vividly remember telling him that I had moved up from the kids meal to the big mac, which I thought was even healthier than the kids meal because it was bigger, and had more vegetables on it. he was the first person to tell me that that Big Macs were incredibly unhealthy. I really had no idea.

I don't blame people for thinking that a lot of that food is healthier than it is.