All right, guess I’ll quit eating until I know every last thing there is to know about what that food may do to me.

The fact that the research may not be available until after I starve is irrelevant, because if I try something and get addicted to it, it was obviously my choice to make to not be fully informed.

Drat, I’m way late making my choices… I should have refused those fatty snacks my parents gave me when I was a kid.

Come down off the high horse for a bit and understand that just because YOU can avoid these things, that doesn’t mean everyone could or can, nor that we know everything we should know about how what we intake can affect us.

Snack food is another matter entirely, as David Kessler, MD, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, explains in his book The End of Overeating. Such junk food is specifically designed — emphasis on design — to exploit and manipulate the “eat more” signal. The problem is not — I repeat NOT — with the signal. One which has served 7 millions years of hominin evolution well, and millions more years of mammalian evolution. We don’t need a drug to block “endocannabinoid signaling in the brain.” We need to stop eating crap foods, and to stop subsidizing with our taxpayer dollars the production, consumption, resulting ill-health consequences of such food.

Why — I ask — why is every piece of research concerning the human body immediately understood as an opportunity for Big Pharma to make even more money selling evermore dubious solutions to problems with known answers? Please in future declare your biases, and don’t report such potential benefits under the guise of science.

Thank you.