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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because our government is influenced by money more than people [/quote] This. Americans care about what they eat as much as anyone else in the world. But we live in a hyper capitalist state that has made very limited effort to ensure good nutrition, and does not regulate food well enough. The laws like the one you cite in Europe about Subway's bread simply do not exist here. It's a system where corporations are given carte blanche to market and sell cheap junk food to Americans, sometimes with the government's assistance, as is the case with many of the contracts food companies have with schools in this country. Then Americans develop diseases and disorders thanks to this poor nutrition, and our privatized medical system fails to serve them, often refusing to pay for preventative treatments (like nutritionists!) that could keep the problems from getting worse. Then the pharmaceutical companies swoop in with drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and the medical insurance companies WILL pay for those treatments. It's a system where the average American is miserable but the average shareholder is rich. It's going great.[/quote] Doesn’t matter. Call a subway sandwich here a donut sandwich and people won’t care and will eat at same rate[/quote]
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