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Food costs consume a huge percentage of our budget. Because we\u2019re dependent on food, we\u2019re also fairly dependent on those who market and sell it. Food industries take advantage of this. By making claims about the proven nutritional value of their products, food and drug companies and advocacy groups blur the line between science and marketing. How does food industry corruption affect you?
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Organizations like the National Dairy Council, the American Meat Institute, and Florida Citrus Processors Association each have annual budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. With this money comes power over research, medical education, and government decisions. We\u2019ll cover the ways in which the food industry acts unethically and why you should care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Food Industry Corruption: 4 Problems for the Consumer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at some of the ways food industry corruption affects you.
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Problem #1: <\/strong>Nutrition Confusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The consumer can\u2019t always tell which claims are based on rigorous research and which are marketing ploys.<\/strong>
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It\u2019s the job of food industries to sell a product<\/a>. But when they clothe their marketing in scientific language, they make it hard for the consumer to understand the truth of a product\u2019s health claims.
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Problem #2: Consumer Vulnerability<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Consumers are particularly vulnerable to food and drug industries.<\/strong>
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Our lives literally depend on the foods we eat and the drugs we take. We might be able to resist the newest Apple offering or Lululemon pants because we know, on a rational level, that we don\u2019t really need<\/em> them. But we can\u2019t say that about food.
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When food industries tell us that we need their products in order to be healthy, they\u2019re hard to resist. They use scientific language or cite scientific studies to make it sound like it\u2019s science<\/em> that says we need these products. And whereas the layman might be skeptical<\/a> of an advertiser\u2019s health claim, he often doesn\u2019t have the background knowledge to argue with \u201cscience.\u201d
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Problem #3: <\/strong>Reductionism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marketers take advantage of reductionism<\/a>.<\/strong>
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Researchers often study nutrients out of context. This can result in conflicting findings and confusion. It also makes it easy for industries to find a favorable study result and exploit it, taking the finding out of context. (This is what the supplement industry did with lycopene.)
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Problem #4: Prioritization of Profits Over Health<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Food industries use shady tactics to prioritize profits over public health.<\/strong>
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Researcher T. Colin Campbell says that while he was preparing to publish the results of the China Study<\/a>, the National Dairy Council and the American Meat Institute employed a committee of researchers to infiltrate scientific councils and boards across the nation and keep tabs on his and others\u2019 work.
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The dairy and meat industries wanted to stay ahead of the \u201ccompetition\u201d (the researchers). They wanted to know what scientists were discovering that might hurt their profits so they could market their own versions of the research.
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This might be a smart (if unethical) business move, but it increases the confusion around nutrition research and hurts consumers looking for the truth.
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Food Industry Corruption Example #1: The Orange Industry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nothing seems as innocuous as oranges, but few products are immune to food industry corruption. The orange industry is a powerful food industry in the U.S. and provides a good example of the extent to which the food industry can shape the public\u2019s health \u201cknowledge.\u201d
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We all know that oranges are high in vitamin C. Or do we?
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Oranges do have vitamin C<\/strong>, but this antioxidant makes up only 1-2% of the total antioxidants in oranges<\/strong>, meaning that 98-99% of an orange\u2019s free-radical fighting power comes from other antioxidants.
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There are many foods that contain far more vitamin C than oranges, like peppers, strawberries, broccoli, papayas, and peas. So why do we automatically think oranges whenever someone mentions vitamin C? Because the industry jumped on research that showed oranges contained vitamin C and publicized it until it was the most well-known fact about oranges.
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Food industries have the power to shape what we know about nutrition. This is an example of low-level food industry corruption. Let\u2019s look at an example of a food industry that dupes us on a larger scale.
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Food Industry Corruption Example #2: The Dairy Industry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The dairy industry<\/a> is another major industry, one of the most powerful in the country. In 2003, the National Dairy Council\u2019s budget for marketing alone was $165 million. (In contrast, the budget of the National Watermelon Promotion Board was $1.6 million.) With lots of money comes a high chance of food industry corruption.
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The Dairy Council\u2019s stated goal, unsurprisingly, is to increase demand for dairy products, and they\u2019re open about their strategy of targeting children and their mothers through schools.
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The Dairy Industry\u2019s Relationship with Schools<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The dairy industry uses schools as a platform in various ways.
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For example, the industry publishes highly successful educational programs on nutrition, one of which was used in 76% of the nation\u2019s preschools and kindergartens in 1999. Programs aimed at 2nd- through 4th-graders reach 12 million students every year and high schools receive videos, posters, and nutrition teaching guides. These nutritional programs highlight the importance of milk and dairy products in a healthy diet. <\/strong>Some of these nutrition guides even reassure kids that ice cream is healthy. In addition to promoting the health of all <\/em>dairy products, even desserts and junk foods, some \u201cnutrition\u201d lesson plans include making cow puppets and \u201cMoo Masks.\u201d Curricula provided by the dairy industry is the only nutrition education that most kids get.
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Representatives of the dairy industry also go to schools to teach cafeteria managers how to keep milk cold, the way kids like it, and run promotions in over 20,000 schools to increase milk consumption.
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Marketing to Adults with \u201cScience\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The dairy industry also markets to adults, appealing to their desire to keep their families healthy by sharing research that proves milk\u2019s benefits. They even spend $4 to $5 million a year on conducting their own research.
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The industry was excited when a study on conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), produced in the cow\u2019s rumen (one of its four stomachs) and present in milk products, showed that CLA might prevent stomach tumors and slow the growth of existing tumors.
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Soon, journalists were reporting that milk fought cancer<\/a>. But this wasn\u2019t a logical conclusion. First, CLA was tested in isolation. There was no proof that milk, even milk with CLA, prevented cancer, only that CLA on its own seemed to prevent stomach tumors from forming.
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Second, the CLA studies were done on mice. The results weren\u2019t confirmed in humans.
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Third, some of the experimenters used the tricky method of administering the CLA before<\/em>, not after, the carcinogen. This was a problem because CLA activates the enzyme system. The tumor could be prevented from forming simply because the enzyme system is highly activated, not because CLA is an anticarcinogen. It\u2019s like eating a handful of pesticide, then eating a handful of peanuts drenched in the carcinogen aflatoxin. By eating the pesticide first, you revved up the enzyme system that gets rid of the body\u2019s toxins. Now, your system is better prepared to fight the aflatoxin. But this doesn\u2019t make pesticides anticarcinogens, just like CLA\u2019s ability to activate your enzyme system doesn\u2019t make <\/strong>it<\/em><\/strong> an anticarcinogen.<\/strong>
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One scientist researching CLA privately acknowledged the limits of CLA research, but continues to work for the dairy industry and won\u2019t share his opinion publicly.
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Summary of Recommendations: Beware Food Industry Corruption<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Understand that information on food labels and in advertisements, no matter how scientific it appears, is almost always placed there in the hopes that it will convince you to buy the product. Food industry corruption is common and you should always question the health claims food companies make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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