Due to the rise of nutritionism, the ideology perpetuated by the FDA and supported by
the processed food lobbies, the constituents of whole foods that are vital for healthy functioning of the human body have been reduced to a small handful of nutritional components — macro & micronutrients.
Not exact matches
There have been some attempts to redesign the
food pyramid to improve this problem, but several
lobbying organizations always get involved in the
process, which limits the influence of these efforts.
Not only are we up against a school district
food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger
food culture that values high calorie, highly
processed convenience
food AND huge
food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.
In practice GAIN representatives
lobby to weaken regulations to help its partner companies such as Danone (the world's second largest baby
food company), Mars, Pepsi and Coca Cola, to create markets for
processed foods in low - income countries.9 When «market led approaches» focus on
foods for infants and young children it is troubling.
«
Lobbied heavily by the
food industry, officials secretly overruled science - based standards and a democratic
process to keep salty, highly
processed, fast -
food - style lunch items on the tray every single day.»