I worked in marketing. It's not all bad, because it also raised money for good causes. Their money buys undue influence, and I'm sure we have existing laws about it. We now know the money buys lax law enforcement for laws we already have.
Like the ones passed about marketing directly to children with lies.
It's a catch-22. We are only supposed to let scientists do science, but while the truth is out there, there are few devoted to knowing what it is and where to look for it. But without all the people banding together, we wouldn't have the situation today, which started with the reissue of DANDR. Without that push, and the opportunity for people to try it, find each other, and help the scientists who cared work on it, and work it out.
It's a relentless slow pushback against fools and liars but we have, at least in the US where it is so rampant, tools that we can revive. I'm seeing a message of "nutrition density" that is sometimes actually viewed correctly.
Strangely enough, I'm finding carnivore getting that message out, and the obnoxious vegans are pushing it, which amuses me no end. People are desperate for something that they can cram into their overstressed lives and hearing they must forego convenience is a tough sell until someone develops a health condition. (Then, we have the time but not the energy.
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If we have crumbling institutions like Harvard there's still plenty of research to undermine the ultraprocessed food message, which is still CICO. Because a calorie of sugar is the same as a calorie of meat.
Of course it makes no sense. But it's a great excuse to give people to say to themselves. Did Big Sugar pay ANY price for the disaster that is the American medical situation?
Maybe diabetics should go after THEM and their big pockets. Law circles saying "It's the next tobacco."
If that's how it gets done, and in the US it IS how, much of the time, I think that's the law working as it should.