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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Here's a book that explains how fast food restaurants operate. You'll learn about some of the PR tricks they use to keep up their public immage, among other things. I havn't finished reading it yet but, so far, I find it very informative.
"Appetite For Profit: How The Food Industry Undermines Our Health And How To Fight Back" by Michelle Simon
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I find that quite simple. If you think that certain restaurants are undermining your health don't go to them.
How else would you "fight back"?
Everyone is entitled to their own choices in food unless that is going to be government regulated too. No health insurance for you even if you worked all of your life for that benefit and have always managed to get it for yourself
Nope. The government saw you at McDonalds and traced you there with your very own cell phone.
Scary.
Summary below by Publishers weekly.
Publishers Weekly
Simon, a health policy expert and law professor, skewers the food industry for undermining the health of Americans with "nutrient deficient factory made pseudofoods." In lawyerly fashion, she explains the ABCs of the business imperative of "Big Food" (Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and McDonald's, among many others): make short-term profit without regard to the product's nutritional value or societal effects. Permissible tactics, she says, include false advertising, sham "healthy" food initiatives and co-opting the government, press and academia. Simon also argues that food-industry advocates use front groups to attack critics and spread misinformation about nutritional needs. Simon also chastises her fellow food activists for applauding all "steps in the right direction," no matter how inadequate; the press for its passive publication of scientifically dubious industry statements; and the government for abandoning effective regulation of the food industry. Her case made, Simon offers a host of suggestions and a manual-like set of directions to parents and other food activists on how to work with legislatures, school boards and the media to create a "just food system" that is "sustainable, affordable, accessible, and convenient." (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.