Decoding the Food System: Who's Really Controlling Your Choices?
Individuals often assume food choices are personal, but food systems prioritize manufacturer profits over the lived consequences for ordinary families.
Walk into any major supermarket and look at the end-caps. Those aren't curated for your health — they're auctioned to the highest-bidding manufacturer.
Until that incentive structure changes, individual willpower will keep losing to industrial design.
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