• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Why do people eat food they know isn’t good for their health? Why do people continue to buy products from companies that have proven to only sell bad products or engage in scumbag practices?

    They all have the same answer.

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      It turns out in 1961 the American heart Association took bribery money from procter and gamble, who owned and sold “healthier Crisco” cooking oils that weren’t high in saturated fat, like beef and other cooking oils were.

      The AHA then claimed and pushed that saturated fats caused heart disease.

      Problem is, something like 88% of every study done in the past 60 years has found little to no link between heart disease and saturated fats.

      So beef, according to most studies, isn’t bad for you. The AHA was just crooked and on the take, being paid off to sell Crisco.

      Now it is calorie dense and people tend to eat too much of it, but that seems to be a lot of things. Don’t eat too much or you get fat. But apparently, you don’t have to worry about saturated fats being bad for you.

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        6 months ago

        Why do people buy from Amazon/Walmart when they know it’s making their country poorer?

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          6 months ago

          Why do poor people vote for millionares when they know they don’t care about the poor?

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        6 months ago

        Some of us work multiple part time jobs to barely make it.

        I’d probably stay in the basement if I didn’t need to pay my landed lord their monthly tribute.

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          6 months ago

          buy some cheap sliver of land and park a bus on it. save up and find a better sliver of land and plan from there.

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        6 months ago

        Do you think people in non-capitalist societies only eat the healthiest of foods?