• cereal made by Kellog then packed with sugar post ww2 due to huge sugar surplus then sold directly to kids and convinced everyone that it was good for you somehow. The Vietnamese eat Pho for breakfast which is why they won the Vietnam war.
  • The low fat craze convincing everyone that unsaturated fats are bad and putting sweetners in everything
  • dairy industry convincing everyone to drink milk even though adults dont need milk and large portions of the population are lack toes intolerant
  • the food pyramid that put wheat and corn into everything and continues to do so making my coeliac ass life very difficult
  • italian food isn’t even real
  • contemporary protein craze to sell cheese creating waste product and probably combat vegans by making raw meat eaters filled with worms

Any others im missing?

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    Bacon is an op. And not just the craze of the late 2000s, which was an astroturfed viral marketing campaign. Even the very notion of Bacon being a staple breakfast food was an ad campaign in the 1920s that caught fire.

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        Holy fuck I went to look and didn’t even get to any mention of bacon before I got to this:

        His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist “Torches of Freedom”, and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. Bernays’ involvement in Guatemala facilitated US imperialism and contributed to decades of civil unrest and repression, raising ethical concerns about his role in undermining democratic governance.

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    So many food crazes come down to the belief that there is a singular substance that makes food ‘good’ or ‘healthy’ and that the best diet is one that maximizes consumption of that one substance.

    I feel like 60% of the candy aisle in the super market is the result of a campaign in the 1940s by the meat industry to to find a use for the last bit of the pig that wasnt used for anything else. What even is jello?

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    • What if we made celiac disease fashionable and convinced people that gluten is unhealthy for everyone
    • Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! That’s why you get sugary bullshit foods and white bread
    • Meat is for men, vegetables are for women
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    The low fat craze convincing everyone that saturated fats are bad

    they are though? unsaturated are the good ones. “saturated fat is good actually” is a psyop by the meat and dairy industry to make “good old” lard, butter and bacon seem healthy and it’s been successful in making westerners eat even more crap than before

    edit: also the dark evil side of veganism is in on this. the vegan collaborationists if you will. the ones that want to make you eat virgin coconut oil

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      My bad i always get them mixed up i should have checked. I remember the low fat craze being about reducing all fat rather than just saturated and then packing everything with sweetners instead to make processed food more appealing when its just shit. Largely sold under the guise of weightloss when the core food itself was the problem

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        I often hear the thing about low-fat products replacing fat with sugar/sweeetners, but what kind of products does that work for? if you reduce the fat and add sugar, the product will become sweet when it wasn’t before. i guess it’s possible for junk like cookies and ice cream that can be fat-heavy and already have sugar, replace some of the fat with even more sugar?

        anyway my psyop is soy. most people realised the “soy is estrogen” myth is pure BS, but somehow it had huge residual effects where soy got a rep for being generally “unhealthy”. this made shops give more shelf space to inferior milks like oat and rice, and expensive bougie (and more environmentally destructive) milks like almond and macadamia, and the superior milk, good old soy, got put aside. vegan protein powders in the west are now mostly made from peas (which is fine, but soy has a higher protein content so why not use the superior bean). soy is pretty much a superfood and the meat lobby successfully made the very name sound unhealthy

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      Some saturated fats are healthy, and we need them. Coconut oil immediately comes to mind.

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    contemporary protein craze to sell cheese creating waste product and probably combat vegans by making raw meat eaters filled with worms

    At the store today I saw protein bread, protein chips, and protein yogurt. Apparently the ideal form is to be a walking, swollen bicep

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    -Washing eggs and keeping them refrigerated -Tossing anything that has spent more than two minutes outside of a heat lamp or fridge -Completely arbitrary and made up expiration dates

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    When farmers were being pressured not to anthropomorphize their animals, assured they don’t have feelings and should be treated as any other farm machinery.

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    There’s actually a relevant Video on this, released recently by FPTV.

    Overly Brief Summary: Imperialist expansion over everything. At the expensive of sustainability and nutritional benefits of the food grown. (Don’t have time to expand right now)

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    Okay I have some time so I’m gonna toss some in:

    • Electrolytes
    • Agave Nectar / Coconut Sugar / Honey
    • E621 (By extension E= Bad, in general, always.)
    • Quinoa Superfoods
    • “Cage-Free” (There’s no strict legal definition in what that even means in a lot of places)
    • Fruit Juice is healthy
    • “Locally produced” (When it’s repackaged.)

    Oh and recently they seem to have pivoted from electrolytes to Vitamin and “High fiber” drinks as their latest push.

    I think the next push might be a Soylent 2.0