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...Such tactics may help fatten corporate profits, but they hurt consumers, says Ilaria Passarani, health policy officer at the European consumer organization BEUC. "These measures represent a huge cost for patients and healthcare systems," she says. "These major drug companies should be focusing on innovative medicines, but this report says they actually spend 23% of turnover on marketing and promotional activities, a third more than the 17% they spend on research and development...
...vast majority of fast food meat derives from a single source: corn. She did this by following the vegetable's unique chemical markers that persist even after it's been processed and mixed with other ingredients or eaten as cattle feed. (Corn is heavily used in feedlots to fatten cows up before slaughter.) Fast food critics say a single-source, corn-based diet is unsustainable, because the commodity is is heavily subsidized by the government and requires large amounts of fertilizer, water and fuel. TIME talked Jahren about why fast food represents the American diet, what we have in common...
Clearly the tray lobby knows that if we had to make extra tray-less trips to the servery, we would grow strong and supremely coordinated, balancing our crispy fish sandwiches, bowls of Frosted Mini Spooners, cups of chocolate milk, and organic pasta dishes. They plot instead to fatten us up, dulling our minds and bodies to their (crimson-is-crimson-not-green) treachery...
That leads to two big questions: If ethanol does develop into a major fuel, will there be enough corn to satisfy the demands of distillers, cattle feeders and food manufacturers? If so, at what price? The answer to the first part is "probably," as advances in genetically engineered corn fatten yields. U.S. farmers also are planting 90.5 million acres of corn this season, up 15% from last year...
...simple to blame the decline of the Japanese diet on the arrival of Western fast-food chains over the past several decades. It first took a hit at the end of World War II, when the nation was starving, and the U.S. occupation sought to fatten up a generation of underweight children through mandatory school lunch programs that pushed calorie and fat-rich Western foods such as milk, pork and bread at the expense of the Japanese diet. Millions of Japanese schoolchildren grew up eating like their American counterparts, while the government told their parents that traditional Japanese food...