Ultra-processed foods, especially sweetened drinks, should be banned because they're aggressively marketed and damage health. The farther a product is from its natural source, the more it harms your immune system. At a food industry meeting, the speaker thanked the pharmaceutical association for keeping their profit margins high.
What's one ultra-processed food category you would just ban tomorrow if you could? I think it starts with sweetened beverages. These beautiful trucks that are animated to be traveling down snow-covered streets in America to deliver the holiday cheer of sweetened beverages so you can have the proper celebration with your family. For perfect refreshment every time. I mean, the subliminal messaging is so powerful. Do you have a moment of reflection before you put that bite of food in your mouth? Did this food look like it once came from the earth? And the farther you get away from the earth, the more likely that is going to not have a good effect on your body's immune and health system. I was asked to be one of the speakers at the National Food Processing Association meeting. I said, "I especially want to thank you on behalf of the American Pharmaceutical Association," because they are so appreciative of all the hard work that this industry does in producing low-profit margin products that make the availability a necessity for high-profit margin drugs that come out of the pharmaceutical industry. And of course, that didn't go down too well.
