So far, fear has driven investors to sell consumer-exposed stocks. A basket of such companies — including Oreo cookies maker Mondelez International Inc. and Modelo beer producer Constellation Brand Inc. — is down nearly 9% since early August with losses roughly double those of the S&P 500 Index, while makers of things like insulin pumps have wiped out close to a third of their value over the same stretch amid concerns that fewer people will need their products.
People being more healthy and living longer also threatens the profits of health care providers and funeral homes. The government should do something about that. Maybe ban exercise, or implement a mandatory daily cheese infusion. Would that make the capitalists happy?
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is junk food finally becoming the new tobacco? We can only hope. Maybe in my lifetime it will become unusual to see people having Oreos and Mountain Dew, just like it’s rare to see people out smoking in public anymore.
gullible@kbin.social 1 year ago
2055: fruit is a gateway food to such vices as cookies and pie.
I’m only half serious, but fruit is trending toward being as unhealthy as other snack foods.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Fruit has fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and no fat or cholesterol. To me the fixation on sugar is misguided - vegetable starches are exactly the same thing. A potato is basically 25% sugar for example since potato starch is simply a chain of glucose molecules.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some of them have vitamins and other nutrients but as far as sugar goes you’re spot on
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…what? Are you saying fruit is somehow becoming less healthy?
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But what will I do on my Oreos and Mountain Dew break?
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tell my boss I eat Oreos and mountain dew just to get that extra 15 minute break, but honestly I just sit there