Which old trick from the Tobacco industry playbook is now used by large Food&Beverage corporations to keep us confused ?
👉 AGNOGENIC PRACTICES ! = undertake actions to create doubt.
🤔 How?
For instance, by financing (pseudo)science that purposefully creates confusion and/or discredits unbiased studies. That's not our opinion, this was revealed in a report from the World Health Organization.
💡For more content like this, visit our blog. You may also want to read about the FDA's decision to revoke the use of brominated vegetable oil in food and the UK House of Lords session on nutrition—a must-watch from March 25th.
People are currently very confused about ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and whether they might impact health: due to lack of science? or agnogenic practices in this field as well?
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