The result is that people eat garbage they might not normally eat because the garbage doesn’t look entirely like garbage.  For instance, and with emphasis added:

Betty Crocker Carrot Cake Mix has no carrots, as such. Instead, it has “carrot flavored pieces” made with corn syrup, flour, corn cereal, partially hydrogenated cottonseed and/or soybean oil, a small amount of “carrot powder,” unspecified artificial color, and Yellow 6 and Red 40. Most varieties of Mt. Olive and Vlassic pickles appear greener and fresher thanks to Yellow 5. Kraft Light Catalina Salad Dressing contains Red 40. And caramel coloring and cocoa darken Pepperidge Farm Pumpernickel Bread.

More at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

What can you do?  Eat fresh meals made from whole ingredients.

Besides telling him you’re an aspiring heavy metal guitarist and the universe will be that much poorer without your sweet riffs, can you convince him of mercy? What arguments could you present to a highly sentient and aggressive invader that he should not kill you? When you pose absolutely no threat and he derives great pleasure from devouring your charred remains, what words could possibly sway him toward compassion?

In real life one cannot simply shoot coworkers to “solve” a conflict (though the temptation never quite abates). For this reason, the Snargleplexonians have been rendered invulnerable to physical attack. You also cannot bribe them: what do they care about our money? You cannot guilt them into mercy. They are immune to guilt. So what do you do? You have to appeal to both logic and emotion, and the only way your message will sink in is when it’s delivered with humor and compassion.

This is the handbook for such a situation. By no coincidence, the handbook works out great for vegans who are bombarded with so-called jokes such as, “I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.” That’s right. You didn’t. You don’t even have claws. Go eat a banana.

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