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    This I really don't get..
    there's this new trend/movement in american fast food chains to boldly claim that they will use natural ingredients in their food so what did they used before?

    now, it's like a hospital saying, "hey you complained so now we will use real blood instead of .."

    but this comment from r/hailcorporate sums it up nicely,

    "...So in the states they put corn syrup in their drinks instead of sugar to lower production costs by taking advantage of corn subsidies, while charging the same price to increase profit, and they add unnatural levels of food colouring to make the drink more appealing...

    Then because nobody uses sugar, they can offer drinks with normal sugar as a luxury item at a price premium, and they can remove the colour they added for appeal, to give it MORE appeal?

    And those very corn subsidies mean that taxpayer's money goes to big agri making the agriculture companies rich, then big agri can use those riches to lobby lawmakers to keep those subsidies high?

    Man... the US is a strange place. ..."

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    • What's not to get?
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    • that americans don't complain, there are so many rules and regulations here to protect the consumer from this kind of bollocksgeorgesIII
    • trust me, there are tons of Americans who complain, and that's why things are finally tippingmonospaced
    • I can see how you might not see this living so far away, and how it's easy to lump all of America together as one. We're so far from that it's not even funny.monospaced
    • i think fast food chains went to far to engineer food for taste, addiction, not consumption for health. look at MacDonald profit drops.yurimon
    • you have documentaries on fast food and link to ill health so those who want to live will only find best food so its going to be new trend. but still crap.yurimon
    • mono, I know you like to play the "we aren't all the same" game, but if you look at the graph, america does have a smallish obesity problem.. now tell me it'sgeorgesIII
    • because of the natural food everyone is eating,georgesIII
    • sorry don't want to criticise the whole glorious freedom land, but you kinda have to accept that using natural ingredients in food is kinda better than notgeorgesIII
    • You both have a point. There are millions of ignorant fat morons with their head in the sand and there are also millions of intelligent and aware people.
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    • People worldwide are absolutely waking up to the atrocities of the world. People are becoming more aware and less tolerant of the abuse of power by corporations
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    • I'm not sure how sitting on the internet moaning about people not being aware helps anything though. I've been guilty of it myself...
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    • I'm not denying there's an obesity problem in the US, never would. I'm saying that there's a huge population of health nuts too.monospaced
    • I agree the US is a strange place, where entire States believe weird shit, and eat more shit than others, and places like Florida...monospaced
    • Just the fact that each of the States here is like a small country just shows how much variation there can be. Hardly any ridiculously obese in NYC, for examplemonospaced
    • It's how they can have $1 hamburgers. There are many healthy and smart americans, but there are more ignorant and dumb ones that are looking or need bargains.
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    • Here in the US lesser income folk can't afford to eat the healthiest food and are mostly uninformed about it as well. The inequality gap is real and it's bad.evilpeacock
    • Those same less informed, less healthy individuals seem to be voting for the worst congress we've ever had too. And so it goes...evilpeacock
    • maybe it's just because i live in los angeles, but i feel like the US are leaders in conscious thinking. florida, texas, not so muchscarabin
    • NYC feels like that too sometimes, but I am pretty confident a lot of Europe is far more progressivemonospaced
    • france is making some really good moves latelyscarabin
    • they don't just call it "natural" soda, they advertise it as some kind of anachronism, like "Pepsi Throwback" harkening to a simpler time...sarahfailin
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