• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
    2 years

    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.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      2 years

      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.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          7 months

          You seriously comment on a like 2 year old posting to bitch about citations in a comment thread?

          I gave you all the information you’d need to find sources. Go do it yourself, fuckhead.

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
    2 years

    This rage bait question could be reworded as…

    Why do people consume <anything> when we know it’s bad for the earth.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      2 years

      I think it’s valid that he chose the #1 food source problem to talk about first. Once we fix that, let’s discuss #2.