the corner office

Apropos today's packed lunch story, I think this pretty much sums it up:

The artificial is everywhere; everywhere food is adulterated, filled with ingredients that supposedly make it last longer, or look better, or pass as 'enriched', or whatever else the industry's ad men want us to believe? [W]e are in the hands of the food companies, whose economic clout and advertising make it possible for them to describe what we can and cannot eat... we shall take energetic steps to prevent the ruin of our people by the food industries.

-- Heinrich Himmler

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