By Jonathan Cook: Here is an
article on food whose political implications are really worth
considering. We already know that people in western societies,
particularly the US and UK, are eating far too much junk food, and that
this leads to an epidemic of obesity, heart disease and cancer.
But the latest research not
only reveals the extent that “ultra-processed” foods have come to
dominate our diets in Europe – now comprising more than half of what
Britons eat, for example – but raises the question of what effects the
consumption of this much junk food will have on our behaviours.
