While national food labelling would pose additional costs to U.S. exporters shipping their packaged foods to countries adopting such rules, the only thing being protected by banning it would be the financial interests of
the American processed food industry.
Not exact matches
Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) is a Fortune 500
American company that
processes branded and unbranded
food products for retail and the foodservice
industry.
... Consumption of
processed foods (which are laced with sugar) cost the
American public more than $ 54 billion in dental bills each year, so the dental
industry reaps huge profits from the programmed addiction of the public to sugar products.
More specifically, most of these seven panel members appear to be closely associated with the
processed food industry, those purveyors of the sugary, and hydrogenated oil - laden
foods that are making
Americans ever - fatter.
Their taste buds have been taken hostage by the
processed food industry to the point that most
Americans (and increasingly, the entire world population) have no idea anymore what real whole
food is supposed to taste like.
Had the study been completed, it could have led to further research and policies that put the welfare of
American citizens — not the sugar and
processed food industries — first.
I too am Vegan for 2 years now and I think the reason its a tough sell to the SAD camp is there is a trillion dollar
food industry which relentlessly spews false information via every possible medium 24/7 to convince people that eating all the meat, cheese / dairy, fish, sweetened drinks,
processed food they want is fine and the vast majority of
Americans somehow believe it.
And brothals will come when
Americans recognize that the
food industry has prostituted itself to short cuts and huge profits, shortcuts that cheat consumers of the nutrients they should get in their
food and profits that skew the economy towards industrialization in farming and
food processing.
It's no wonder that twenty - six million
Americans have diabetes, the
processed food industry in the U.S. accounts for $ 1 trillion a year in sales, and the total economic cost of this health crisis is approaching $ 300 billion a year.
The film exposes this myth that personal responsibility is the only thing stopping
Americans from eating healthier, focusing especially on the health of children and the way the fast
food industry uses manipulative marketing to hook kids on unhealthy
processed foods.