Big Food! Poor Diet! Bad Health! Do We Want the Government to Better Regulate Our Food? How Could It Work? What If We Just Want to Keep Eating Tombstone Pizza, Fruit Loops & Never Learn to Cook?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The biggest health risks of foods in America are not the additives that many people worry about. The real culprits are familiar foods and ingredients that are safe or even healthy in limited amounts but become killers when consumed in excess. Research is clear that Americans take in way too much sugar and sodium (in salt), as well as too much red meat, processed meat and refined grains. And Americans don’t eat enough vegetables, fruits, whole grains, seafood or potassium. This isn’t news to most of us. So why do we continue to have such unhealthy eating habits? Americans are not irresponsible gluttons. And it’s not that we hate the taste of healthy food. In one study, people locked in a food lab for a month were just as satisfied with healthy, unprocessed meals, which made them lose weight, as they were with unhealthy, ultra-processed meals, which made them gain weight. The problem is that we are up against a food system that overwhelms us. Americans’ unhealthy diets reflect how foods today are designed, produced, sold and marketed. Most foods stocked in American grocery stores don’t grow from the ground. They are complex, ultra-processed products that are mass-produced in factories. That processing involves adding salt, sugar and fat that humans are biologically programmed to like, so all of us find it difficult to resist these foods. Some would say they are addictive." This paragraph comes from an essay in the Wall Street Journal. The essay is titled: "We Battled Big Food. Can RFK, Jr. Succeed Where We Failed?" The authors are Thomas Farley & Tom Friedannull. You can read the full essay here: https://www.wsj.com/politics/we-battled-big-food-can-rfk-jr-succeed-where-we-failed-1275d153 Zac & Don discuss food policy in America. They wonder if RFK will have any success in trying to change the types of foods that Americans eat. They discuss the merits of the policy ideas proposed but ultimately wonder if Americans actually want to change the way they eat.