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From Organic Consumers dot Org "What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food" By Onnesha Roychoudhuri an interview with author Raj Patel's regarding his book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System a quote: "OR: Can you point out some more of the ways in which the supermarket experience is such a constrained environment? RP: The resemblance to rats in cages in laboratories is more than cosmetic. The way that we shop today in supermarkets is profoundly manipulated. Everything about it is the result of millions of dollars in investments and experiments. Everything about it: the lighting, the positioning of things, the reason that the milk is always at the back, all of these are ways in which we're manipulated. The profound irony is that we go into supermarkets and we are made to believe that we choose freely but the moment we step through the doors of the supermarket, we have been made for our food. We are being crafted in that environment into people who will impulse purchase, will accept a range of fruits and vegetables that is very narrow, will think that when we pick between Coke and Pepsi, that that's real choice." When are YOU going to take back control of where your food comes from and no longer be manipulated by big corps, agribiz and media advertisements? |
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