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Ricardo Marcal
Your Health Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk

Your Health Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk

If you're someone who has turned to snacking on junk food more in the pandemic, you're not alone. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss says processed food is engineered to be "craveable," not unlike a cigarette or a hit of cocaine. His 2013 book, Salt Sugar Fat, explored food companies' aggressive marketing of those products and their impact on our health. In his new book, Hooked, Moss updates the food giants' efforts to keep us eating what they serve — and how they're responding to complaints from consumers and health advocates. Processed food, he notes, is "inexpensive, it's legal, it's...

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Ricardo Marcal
The World Is Stuck With Decades of New Plastic It Can't Recycle

The World Is Stuck With Decades of New Plastic It Can't Recycle

Only 9% of all plastic produced gets recycled. Plastic waste exported from the country where it was discarded counts as “recycled,” regardless of its actual fate. And virgin plastic is so cheap that there is no financial incentive for companies to use recycled plastic in their products. In short, plastic recycling is a myth. In this field guide, we will take you through the forces shaping the coming surge in virgin plastic production, how we’ve been hoodwinked into believing that recycling is a solution, and what we are learning about the health effects of a life wrapped in plastic.

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