{"id":158813,"date":"2015-06-12T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158813"},"modified":"2015-06-12T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:29:25","slug":"abusive-big-food-industry-losing-power-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/abusive-big-food-industry-losing-power-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Abusive Big Food Industry Losing Power &#038; Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A red flag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LS14MCC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00LS14MCC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=nutr0c-20&amp;linkId=CH6BY3P52GWCJSVS\">sign of an emotionally abusive relationship<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=nutr0c-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00LS14MCC\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0is when the abuser goes to great lengths to make the abused party seem \u201ccrazy\u201d or \u201cridiculous.\u201d This is actually just an attempt to maintain power in the relationship and the behavior worsens when they sense that their victim is breaking free. They humiliate, demean, and \u201ctease\u201d the victim in an effort to remain in control. \u00a0This is the classic pattern of a bully, whether it\u2019s in a romantic relationship, a workplace relationship, or a parent\/child relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this is also how a dying multi-billion dollar industry behaves in\u00a0an attempt to shame the fleeing customers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Exhibit A, from Pepsi:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ng-1hc_-DGc\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\">(<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/desperate-junk-food-companies-now-making-fun-of-healthy-people-in-advertisements\/?utm_source=fb&amp;utm_medium=fb&amp;utm_campaign=antimedia\" target=\"_blank\">Hat tip to John Vibes at True Activist<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>This is just the most recent evidence of a trend mocking those who avoid putting processed garbage into their bodies in attempt to do some damage control.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months back, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/is-opting-out-of-processed-food-the-new-eating-disorder-03032015\" target=\"_blank\">headlines\u00a0screamed about \u201cthe new eating disorder\u201d of eating as healthfully as possible<\/a>. The mainstream media (heavily funded by Big Food, of course) co-opted the very real disorder of <em>Orthorexia Nervosa <\/em>and assigned the label to folks who refused to consume junk food.\u00a0They based the media blast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18524314\" target=\"_blank\">a study published in a Spanish medical journal <\/a>that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\"><p>Orthorexia is an obsessive-compulsive process characterized by extreme care for and selection of what is considered to be pure \u2018healthy\u2019 food. This ritual leads to a very restrictive diet and social isolation as a compensation. Orthorexics obsessively avoid foods which may contain artificial colours, flavours, preservant agents, pesticide residues or genetically modified ingredients, unhealthy fats, foods containing too much salt or too much sugar and other components. The way of preparation, kitchenware and other tools used are also part of the obsessive ritual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their advertisers need you to think you\u2019re nuts, because the Big Food Beast is failing. Companies are losing money hand over fist as consumers learn the truth about their unhealthy offerings. \u00a0Following is a list of companies that are grasping at anything they can get ahold of to maintain their power positions in the industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">ConAgra (Hunts, Swiss Miss, Chef Boy Ardee)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Kraft (Oscar Mayer, Jell-O, Maxwell House, Velveeta)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Kellogg<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Campbell\u2019s Soup<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Coca-Cola<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">McDonalds<\/li>\n<li class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Monsanto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/kraft-kelloggs-coca-cola-and-dozens-more-continue-to-lose-money\/\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/official-mcdonalds-monsanto-losing-money-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, businesses that focus on healthful, wholesome, non-processed foods are on the fast track to success. Lisa Leake, the author of the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062252550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062252550&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=nutr0c-20&amp;linkId=KSPSTSOCU2HA3WBW\">100 Days of Real Food<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=nutr0c-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0062252550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, started out with a blog journaling a challenge that she and her family took to break free of processed foods. The blog is now one of the top food destinations on the web and the book is a\u00a0New York Times #1 bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>While the trend in the direction of real food is bad news for food \u201cmanufacturers\u201d (those words really shouldn\u2019t ever be used together), its great news for the health of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to continue to see the escalation of propaganda that scoffs at healthy eaters. And every time you see it, smile. It means we\u2019re winning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/big-food-kicking-screaming-and-losing-lots-of-money-06082015\">The Organic Prepper<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-author-archives-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/daisy-luther\/\">The Best of Daisy Luther<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2015\/06\/daisy-luther\/bigfood-mocks-people-like-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2015\/06\/daisy-luther\/bigfood-mocks-people-like-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red flag sign of an emotionally abusive relationship\u00a0is when the abuser goes to great lengths to make the abused party seem \u201ccrazy\u201d or \u201cridiculous.\u201d This is actually just an attempt to maintain power in the relationship and the behavior worsens when they sense that their victim is breaking free. They humiliate, demean, and \u201ctease\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}