There's hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, and you can have high margins around when you produce Cheerios in a way that you can't when you resell oats in their original form. So from a business industrial complex perspective, it gets cheaper. We're subsidizing these but giant factories run by robots. And they're just taking extracts of food from around the world and just pre-purposing it into something that then looks like fake food again. I'm sorry to see those go. None of these things are off the limit.
“Our food decisions,” writes Dr. Tim Spector in his new book, Food for Life, “are the single most important modifiable factor in preventing common diseases and staying healthy.” But how do we know we’re making the right choices? In this episode, we dig into what scientists like Tim have learned about what we should eat — and why.
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