It’s not just a salad garnish, or a burger topping any more. While bacon seems innocuous enough, its over-prescription in fast food is part of a caloric collaboration to keep Americans fat, lazy and stupid. Worse yet, a mutant porcine pathogen, not unlike the swine flu, has the potential to leap from factory-farm raised animals to humans and cause devastating harm.
According to David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating, a standard joke in the restaurant chain industry goes, “When in doubt, throw cheese and bacon on it.”
More than that, notes Kessler, the food industry uses science and marketing to try to make its products addictive. By manipulating what he calls the “three points of the compass” — fat, sugar and salt — the food industry creates highly processed foods that can hook us like drugs. In various countries and regions, the levels of fat, sugar and salt are even calibrated to different “bliss points” to maximize the consumers’ pleasure.
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