{"id":57521,"date":"2024-10-14T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57521"},"modified":"2024-10-14T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:09:22","slug":"an-act-of-war-big-food-intentionally-addicting-kids-to-toxic-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57521","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An act of war\u2019: Big Food intentionally addicting kids to toxic foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Big_Food_Target_Kids_Harmful_Cereal.png\" alt=\"Big Food Target Kids Harmful Cereal\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Big_Food_Target_Kids_Harmful_Cereal.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Big_Food_Target_Kids_Harmful_Cereal-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Big_Food_Target_Kids_Harmful_Cereal-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. food companies \u2018using toxic ingredients\u2019 that are banned overseas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American food manufacturers (Big Food ) targets young consumers in the U.S. and use thousands of ingredients they don\u2019t include in identical products sold in other countries to to get them addicted to unhealthy products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/healthier-mcdonalds-options-available-europe-not-us\">McDonald\u2019s French fries<\/a>, contain 11 ingredients in the U.S., but only three in other countries, and Skittles, \u201cwhich uses 10 different artificial food dyes\u201d in the U.S. \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efsa.europa.eu\/en\/news\/titanium-dioxide-e171-no-longer-considered-safe-when-used-food-additive\">titanium dioxide<\/a>, which is \u201cbanned in Europe because it can cause DNA damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg\u2019s was singled out for \u201ctargeting little children,\u201d after pledging in 2015 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/kelloggs-eliminate-artificial-ingredients-cereal-snacks-n404451\">remove artificial food dyes<\/a>\u00a0from its cereal products by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>But they never did, they lied about it and they started to create new cereals that were targeting the smallest of children, using the most popular toddler songs, like \u2018Baby Shark\u2019 and Disney\u2019s \u2018Little Mermaid.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/an-act-ofwar-big-food-intentionally-addicting-kids-to-toxic-foods\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/an-act-ofwar-big-food-intentionally-addicting-kids-to-toxic-foods\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. food companies \u2018using toxic ingredients\u2019 that are banned overseas American food manufacturers (Big Food ) targets young consumers in the U.S. and use thousands of ingredients they don\u2019t include in identical products sold in other countries to to get them addicted to unhealthy products. McDonald\u2019s French fries, contain 11 ingredients in the U.S., but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u2018An act of war\u2019: Big Food intentionally addicting kids to toxic foods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57523,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521\/revisions\/57523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}