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Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing (feddit.uk)
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[โ€“] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tin Foil Hat time: So what the gov/corps wants to do is make those people who cook their own food become sick/distrustful of safe food so they buy the heavily processed premade products from the tobbacco...I mean FOOD companies filled with all their artificial ingredients that hook you into a junk food addiction downward spiral.

....now that I say (write) that out loud (virtually) it doesn't sound that far fetched

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait why would premade foods be better than making your own

[โ€“] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

They're not, highly processed foods are made with 'addictive chemical's. This is what the tobacco companies saw in the food market and why the bought up all the food processing companies.

So if real food is bad you're going to get the 'safer' product.

[โ€“] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans have a weird idea that fast food isn't just mostly the same ingredients you see in a store + sugar and preservatives and that by cooking you somehow elevate the ingredients to a higher quality.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is research showing that processed foods are worse for you, even if the exact mechanism isn't clear. Plus there are more opportunities for various contamination, a lot of the recalls you see for dangerous pathogens seem to be premade food products. Although yeah, fast food would also have that problem.

[โ€“] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

filled with all their ~~artificial ingredients~~ that

filled with all their artificial intelligence that