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  • 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

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[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

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?