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Food for thought … take a deep dive into our addiction to ultra-processed foods (#UPF) with Chris Van Tulleken unraveling the linkages between the modern food, agriculture, and capitalist systems responsible for driving human health degradation, the industrial agricultural complex, and unsustainable economic models --- and as comparable to other predatory industries such as #tobacco, #alcohol, and #oil industries. Key points: ‘the primary cause of pandemic of diet-related diseases … obesity, diabetes, and malnutrition is due to the rise of ultra-processed food (industrially produced edible substances). Obesity and diet-related diseases are commerciogenic, driven by profit incentives, and a key to society's addiction and ill-health caused by ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods are a linchpin in degrading human health, expansion of the industrial agricultural complex, biodiversity loss, and is underwritten by institutional investment and retirement funds supporting multinational food companies and financial institutions' relentless quest for growth and profitability at any cost’. Worth watching!
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