agreed. the comments in here feel reactionary, not taking into account the sheer amount of influence marketing has on society. beyond just hyperpalatability, the tobacco companies also leveraged all they learned from their extremely successful advertising campaigns and applied it to foods

that meme image of Garfield saying 'you are not immune to propaganda' comes to mind. it's always the people who are the most confident that they aren't influenced by marketing that also have some of the most irrationally strong brand loyalties