just wow.

video games make us violent
movies make us sexual
and food companies make us eat.

Freakin A.

How about this : If you cook your own food you know exactly what's going in your body.  Stop blaming other people for your problems.

And now we know the next target of the Nannies:  Food and food advertising!

Why is it liberals can never accept that people make choices on their own, that they aren't always manipulated by corporations or advertising or what have you?

It's really a joke.

And ironic, when you consider how much manipulation the media engaged in back during the presidential elections and continues to engage in now:

"Here's a question that you've probably never thought of when reaching
for that ballot. Is it you who's
actually deciding who to vote for? Or is someone really
deciding for you?

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

 I give author credit for pointing out usual lack of personal responsibility that the left promotes in the blame others utopia they imagine. However the food industry does manipulate consumers and spends god knows how much money on research in efforts to appeal to peoples taste and get them hooked on whatever they are selling. Little more sugar here and deep fried this and that all to bring out those cravings and keep a consumer consuming their product.

Now many here would argue hey appealing to ones customers is simply good business practice and you would be right except one small thing. When a product causes nothing but harm to a consumers health and the company knows this then personal responsibility works both ways. People are responsible ultimately for what they do and do not eat. The food industry however are also responsible for knowingly making products that have no nutritional value at all. They should be pointed out as doing such. It is their free right to make these products and our free right to eat or not to eat them but if your going to point out personal responsibility on consumer end in order to be impartial you must point out the companies knowingly producing bad products.

 First it was "military-industrial complex" then it was "big tobacco" then "big oil", now it's "big food"? is there no end to the conspiracies that make the sheeple do all these horrible things?For without them humans would be decent, in shape, moral, debt free?

 Why no calls to silence "big media" or "big government" from these people too? Or is that they only wish to suppress anything that threatens Big Media and Big Government in the hearts and minds campaign of Life In America?

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Oh puhleeeze Kessler...when I eat it's because I am hungry.

I don't do it for 'stimulation' you nutcase you.

Sanchez isn't even worth the mention.

Nothing like trying to control the food industry either...they have been for years, trial lawyers just drooling with hunger.

Hey, let's see if we can Nationalize this industry too while we're at it.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Are not we as an audience "being programmed, kind of like manipulated like Pavlov's dog for profit."???

Are we not being manipulated by the ever obnoxious Billy Mays as he screams at us while he shills his latest crappy product?  Are we not being manipulated by one of CNN's sponsors the Royal Saud Investment Group?  "Hello.  We are the Saudis and WE love you"?

Right now, of my own volition, I'm going to have a triple cheeseburger, a 44oz Dr. Pepper, and a deep-fried twinkie.

¡Que aproveche!

For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

Kessler is a wacko from way back. They keep dredging up these imbeciles.  But Sanchez may have a point.  For the kind of people that would watch more than 10 seconds of CNN, food manipulation would be the least of their problems.  That crowd would be easily succeptible to it.

If this is what the CNN crowd worries about, then we do own them.   

 They will have to pry my sugar donut out of my cold dead hands.

Hey Sanchez, I also hear that the beer companies put in a special ingredient that makes a person hit pedestrians.

_______ Him and the Unicorn he rode in on

Sanchez is a tool and Kessler is selling the typical alarmist pulp.

Doesn't mean it isn't true that the processed food industry isn't manipulating the products, intentionally or unintentionally to exploit human weakness to sell more. Food Science is pretty sophisticated these days and major retail food products are carefully formulated for long shelf-life and high-consumer appeal.

It is ultimately the end-consumer's own responsibility what he puts in his mouth.

Unfortunately, this isn't always as easy as it sounds, in this go-fast, no-time world. It is also unfortunate that healthier, unprocessed foods are often far more expensive than highly processed junk food. A lot more Cheetos get eaten in the ghetto than beans and rice. It's convenient, cheap, and readily available source of calories.

Paradoxically, we have reached a point in human history where more people can afford more caloric food value than ever, yet it may be the biggest threat to health ever seen.

OK, it's all clear to me. What we need is a Cheeseburger Czar to save us from ourselves.

I'm skinny and can eat whatever I want.  I don't want my choices limited because other people can't accept the fact that they aren't me.

And I smoke too, so pbbbbbt!

Liberal: remove all that's Right, and this is what's Left.

It is clear that people in the US need to be eating better.  The amount of unhealthy/overweight adults and children in this country is getting ridiculous.  One thing that consumers cannot control is the terribly ingredients used in most of today's food products.  Just look at the ingredients.  But more importantly, people need to make lifestyle changes.  This includes eating better, being active, and most importantly quit blaming other people!! It is the companies' job to market what we as a country want, otherwise they would be out of business.  They are not brainwashing us into being obese.  If we start eating better then the food industry would be marketing that.  But then there would just be people complaining about that.

Another liberal telling us what we ought to do.

I thought liberals love "choice"? I can do as I please.