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Hekate

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16. Processed food companies spend millions of dollars to manipulate desires
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 09:51 PM
Jul 2013

If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it, and it is done in laboratories that would do B.F. Skinner proud. Every sense is engaged -- what you see, taste, smell, touch, and hear -- precisely calibrated and all heading for a feedback loop in the brain.

If there is a genetic/psychological weakness in the armor, they will gleefully exploit it without a moment's hesitation. Diabetes in little kids? Pfft -- that's mommy's fault.

Add to that a sedentary lifestyle and additives no one can pronounce (what I call "poisoning our food chain&quot and you have trouble.

There are many pieces to this puzzle. Many. But shaming people is not the answer, because individuals are up against forces they can't even see.

This, however, is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, where corporations are people, my friend, and regulations are a Really Bad Thing.

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