Deceptive Advertising Rampant in the Food Industry
Here’s a fabulous video that makes an important point: we consumers are on the receiving end of a steady stream of lies about the products we’re buying. This particular segment exposes one specific form of this: the word “natural” has no real meaning in our language; our Food and Drug Administration does not object to food manufacturers, with their heavily processed products grown in chemical fertilizers and sprayed with poisons, advertising their products as “natural.” They’re counting on the fact that consumers will conflate “natural” with “organic,” and they’re right most of the time. (more…)