I've seen a few posts like this recently, claiming that 'Big Tobacco' used its mysterious, fiendish tricks to manipulate food when some of them bought food companies in the 1980s.
Fun fact: Many of the unhealthy processed foods you see today were created by the Big Tobacco.
— Dan Go (@FitFounder) April 8, 2024
In the 1980's, tobacco giants Phillip Morris & R.J. Reynolds bought the major food companies you see today.
Kraft, General Foods, Nabisco, and many other food companies were run by… pic.twitter.com/IzhpoARn0o
As I explain on my Substack, it's nonsense.
So why say it? Presumably because it advances the goal of applying tobacco-style regulation to the food your eat.
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