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Another quick gain could come from encouraging people to eat more plant-based foods, perhaps by taxing meat and using the revenue to subsidize more sustainable alternatives.
And people should be educated to choose more sustainable and nutritious
foods.
Unhealthy, processed
foods
are more readily available now than ever before, and rising middle classes in China, India, and throughout the region can better afford them.
And Spain’s export growth has been powered by price-sensitive low-value-added sectors like fuels, foods, and raw materials, not Spanish firms’ movement up the value chain.
And in recent years, the EU has at least started to reduce the market support prices of some foods, while compensating farmers by making direct income supplement payments instead.
Consider how the fast-food industry uses oils, fats, sugar, and other addictive ingredients to create unhealthy dependency on
foods
that contribute to obesity.
The rest of the world will eventually follow unless countries restrict dangerous corporate practices, including advertising unhealthy and addictive
foods
to young children.
The problem is not just
foods.
Most countries invest to measure GNP, but spend little to identify the sources of poor health (like fast
foods
and excessive TV watching), declining social trust, and environmental degradation.
The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops – corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice – along with other
foods
like cooking oils, has been devastating for poor households all over the world.
For example, the “cultural-behavioral” approach explains health inequalities in terms of differences in individual behaviors, asserting that poorer people have worse health outcomes, owing to a higher propensity to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat less healthy
foods.
More than two billion of us are overweight, puffed up by low-energy sugars and mass-produced processed
foods
rich in fat.
GM
foods
have now been on the market in the US for more than 12 years.
There is no evidence of even a single case of illness or death as a result – in the US or anywhere else where GM
foods
are consumed.
What, then, is the danger of GM
foods?
This is correct: GM
foods
cannot singlehandedly solve the problem, but they can be an important part of the solution.
Golden rice is the most prominent example in the global controversy over GM foods, which pits a technology with some risks but incredible potential against the resistance of feel-good campaigning.
Greenpeace calls golden rice a “failure,” because it “has been in development for almost 20 years and has still not made any impact on the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency.”But, as Ingo Potrykus, the scientist who developed golden rice, has made clear, that failure is due almost entirely to relentless opposition to GM
foods
– often by rich, well-meaning Westerners far removed from the risks of actual vitamin A deficiency.
As an illustration, current regulations for GM foods, if applied to non-GM products, would bar the sale of potatoes and tomatoes, which can contain poisonous glycoalkaloids; celery, which contains carcinogenic psoralens; rhubarb and spinach (oxalic acid); and cassava, which feeds about half a billion people, but contains toxic cyanogenic alkaloids.
Here it is worth noting that there have been no documented human health effects from GM
foods.
Greenpeace and many others claim that GM
foods
merely enable big companies like Monsanto to wield near-monopoly power.
The principle even applies to foods: Large amounts of nutmeg or licorice are notoriously toxic.
As a result, the IARC has in the past classified aloe vera, acrylamide (a substance created by frying foods, such as French fries and potato chips), cell phones, working night shifts, Asian pickled vegetables, and coffee as “probable” or “possible” carcinogens.
The deluge of conflicting data relating to various foods’ costs and benefits exemplifies the challenge inherent in making informed decisions.
In a recent study, Jonathan Schoenfeld and John Ioannidis found that, despite the media hype, “scientific” claims that various
foods
cause or protect against cancer are frequently not supported by meta-analysis (analysis of pooled results from multiple studies).
Humans have added essential vitamins or minerals to their
foods
since time immemorial; indeed, since the beginning of the twentieth century, food fortification has been a major government policy in developed countries to reduce nutritional deficiencies and improve public health.
This statistic begs the question of why India continues to import
foods
and oils that could be produced domestically.
Commercial television programs aimed at children are replete with advertising for processed
foods
of dubious value to human health.
A less intrusive approach to influencing food choices might be to institute a retail tax on all processed
foods
– not just sugary drinks – and an offsetting subsidy on non-processed
foods.
Obviously, some processed
foods
are far worse than others.
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