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Kink crate yes no maybe checklist3/29/2024 ![]() The only contrary example I can think of was the "new Coke" ten or fifteen years ago. Bill de Blasio is correct, he's just politically inept.Ĭonsumers will buy just about any fucking thing if it's advertised and promoted the right way. This makes poor foods cheaper than they should be and cheaper than alternatives. However, there are also a bunch of poor foods that are directly subsidized, or indirectly subsidized with lousy trade, labor and environmental policies. Somewhat, hence the benefit from websites like this one and Michelle's formally ( ) nutrition-activist government. Tue 3:47 pmI'm not doubting the "deliberate decisions to maximize profit.etc." but really, isn't it consumers who are "failing us?". ![]() Why can the corporations make high profits off of selling crap? Because people buy it! If everyone shopped like us they'd lose their shirts on the chip aisle. Why is there even a whole aisle - a whole effin' aisle of chips? Who buys this stuff? Oh yeah, it's the fat ladies wheezing at the effort of pushing their cart full of sugar drinks and white bread. or I can buy chips, nitrite meat simulations, sugared cereal, box mac and cheese, frozen cardboard pizza, etc. I'm not doubting the "deliberate decisions to maximize profit.etc." but really, isn't it consumers who are "failing us?" Destructive corporate system notwithstanding, I can go to most any supermarket and buy fresh vegetables and fruit, somewhat localish meat, decent fish (even if occasionally mis-labeled), acceptable whole grain bread. Many poor choices are avoided by doing most of my shopping at the Co-op. The good news is, we know how to build a better one. ![]() Under the slick supermarket packaging lies a food system that’s failing us.
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