Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever be an arms race.
We wouldn’t throw our hands up if private corporations were able to sell more and more dangerous guns to civilians (arms race). "Ah but what can we do, it's an arms race." We would make it illegal.
EDIT: But not even Americans just Throw Their Hands up over guns. Many, but not all! In fact many are very concerned about the lack of gun regulation.
Contrast with the food industry. There the status quo is to throw your hands up as long as people are making a profit. No matter how underhanded the tactics. Oh well if there is a demand then that is just their god-given right (to make a profit).
It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
If a sizeable portion of the market is on Ozempic, then this will naturally lead to there being a portion of the market that sells well to those people. At that will likely happen a decade before any human understands the mechanics by which that food sells well to people on Ozempic.
One is unscrupulous and the other is blatantly illegal.
Sugar itself, in its processed form, is quite unnatural and causes cravings and addiction.
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't get much sugar aside from fructose.
Conclusion: sugar is mostly used by the industry because it's addictive.
We can talk about if this sugar has pesticides or other substances mixed with it in the post process that are toxic, but this trend of people saying that glucose is addictive is ludicrous. Unlike real drugs, we really need it to live. Would you trust somebody saying that oxygen is a drug and people should stop consuming it?
This is literally the worst justification for anything.
Even the “unprocessed” food we eat today, including plants or dead animal flesh is nothing like what the hunter gatherer ancestors ate.
You can put ungodly amount of sugar in your tea if you squeeze half a lemon into it and it's delicious.
Also, a glass of orange juice is about 1tbsp of sugar away from coke.
don't hold your breath on any jail time for food companies doing this is my point.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241120032300if_/https://www.ny...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park:_The_End_of_Obesity...
I want to see if it will decrease compulsions - substance use and trichotillomania.
