[throwaway5752]

It isn't "so deadly", it's just unhealthy, and it's made worse by culture and business encouraging excessive consumption and serving sizes.

Ultraprocessed foods aren't great, but it's yet another manufactured crisis to serve as a distraction from the Epstein files scandal and coverup, like the attack Iran will be next Thursday. What a horrible time.

[idontwantthis]

I don’t like the “everything else is a distraction” take. Multiple things can be very bad at once, and our government is capable of multiple conspiracies at once. Not that processed food is a government conspiracy.

[Tade0]

Also it's not like it's a new topic. Super Size Me came out in 2004.

[throwaway5752]

I think I agree with you in general, just not in this specific case. There is nothing that changed this year with respect to food.

And this administration rolled back existing standards to improve school lunch nutrition and their nutrition policy changes have not been science based, so they demonstrably don't care about the issue.

[nradov]

Current US federal government nutrition guidelines call for avoiding highly processed foods.

https://realfood.gov/

[epistasis]

An important foot note to that is that the current US federal government has politicized science to the point that it cannot be trusted as a source of health or medical information. Professional societies of doctors and scientists are far more reliable.

Past governments may have also completely botched the food guidelines, too, but it's never been as clearly botched as it is at the moment.