I know I've had a great many posts lately on the food industry and how health by corporate necessity must take a back seat to profit.
So why am I flogging that horse again?
Because of a great, short and powerful video released by the Prevention Institute, which discusses the duplicity of corporate interests as they'd pertain to the corporate lip service that health matters, vs. the realities of the actions they take to protect their profits.
And while I readily agree there are truly thoughtful, caring and health concerned folks in each and every big food corporation (I've met some, and truly am not being even remotely sarcastic), it doesn't change the fact that they're singular voices in massive corporate entities which in turn are beholden to their shareholders and not to our or our childrens' health.
(email subscribers, the video's only 2 mins long and well worth a watch - head over to the blog and click away)
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Not buying it either. Sadly so many parents still do! When I got married 12 years ago, I told my husband that no soft drinks could come in the house (outside of ginger ale). He was flabbergasted, what kind of woman did I marry. 12 years later, he totally supports this decision. And, by chance, he feels a lot better.
ReplyDeleteMost of US are the shareholders, too. Check your IRA mutual fund list lately? It kind of puts us at cross-purposes with ourselves.
ReplyDeletePackaged, ultra-processed branded foods have become the norm in our foodscape and Angela is right - so many parents (and others) still do buy it. How can we change this? We all know there is no one solution, but by educating children in a scaled-up, systematic way through the school system where they are educated about food, nutrition, marketing, and how to purchase, store and prepare food might be a start. I call it the "new home ec", and it needs to be taught by people who are specialists in this area. Sadly, we have decided these skills are outdated, and equally detrimental we have somehow conflated teaching these skills with interfering with people's "freedom of choice" which the food companies love.
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