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Edwynn -> RE: A few Labor Leader, cost 18,500 people their jobs (11/22/2012 12:35:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
Bakeries aren't as profitable as they used to be. With people being more healthy these days, not as many twinkies being sold. It's funny, people used to eat way more twinkies in years past and were slimmer. Now we eat less twinkies and are fatter than ever.
Oh please ...
While it is true that I went from 145 to 160 (at 5'11"), during the ten years I was not only 'veggie,',but no junk of any sort (back to 155, now), this doesn't work for everybody, because we are, some of us, made differently.
I just have a weird catabolism.
But, if you knew the least thing about food science and food chemistry and, most especially, marketing, you might ascertain that not only is there more than one way to skin a cat, but, between food science and the FDA and the USDA (duly administered by bonafide agents of the corporations concerned), there are seemingly innumerable ways to insert bio-engineered skin of said cats into every item of food imaginable.
Basic food science, as taught in every such class; the combination of fat (especially of the saturated variety, all the better if not-fit-for-human-consumption cotton seed oil, if cost be any concern), salt, and sugar (especially of the high fructose corn syrup variety) is what sells, and by gosh they are hell bent on selling it.
You sell what sells, calories included. The fundamental of microeconomics is the study of how to attain maximization of profit, by whatever (usually) legal means necessary. If the marketing does it's job, the product gets sold. Marketing is eons further than what it was 30 years ago, regarding national brands, which is the issue at hand, here. Advanced marketing techniques equates to greater obesity, no question.
You also left out the fact that soda and snack machines did not exist in the school system 30 years ago, and pizza was only offered in the cafeteria once every one or two weeks,. That, and even worse, in terms of trans-fats, saturated fats, hyper-caloric foods, along with colas instead of milk or tea as drink with, are the 'standard,' every day in the US school system, now.
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Are people that much more stupid, now, so that the same economic demand for bad loans, such demand as has never changed over centuries, so that the demand curve in that regard has somehow shifted to the right, or that people's desire for whatever blows its pretty face before them EVER changed?
No, that hasn't changed. What HAS changed is that this government has completely given up on its own people, in every way imaginable.
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