- 23 Nov 2020 01:48
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I have a good friend from Mexico who offers me a Gatorade each time we go biking. Meanwhile, I make home-made "Mexican Gatorade" with cold water, lime juice and salt. Why does over-priced commercial shit do so well in this market? And how can Mexicans - with one of the finest cuisines on the planet - eat fastfood shit so much?
No entiendo.
Guacamole or McDonald's special sauce? Is this really a hard choice?
"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.
Belen Fernandez wrote:Neoliberal obesity and coronavirus in Mexico
American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll.
In August, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca banned the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to children under the age of 18. Mexico’s Assistant Health Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell, who has denounced soda as “bottled poison”, expressed support for the new law, which has begun to catch on in other Mexican states as well.
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In recent years, Mexico has vied with the US for the title of most obese nation on earth – three-fourths of adults there are overweight, and at least one in 10 have diabetes. Oaxaca, one of the poorest Mexican states, has among the highest obesity levels and the highest child obesity rate in the country.
Indeed, Mexicans drink more soda per capita than any other country in the world, and former Mexican President Vicente Fox was once the CEO of Coca-Cola Mexico. In 2017, diabetes became the nation’s number one killer.
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Behind the ever-convenient facade of “free trade” – which in contexts involving the US generally means the US is free to do as it pleases while the rest of the participating countries are free to suck it up – NAFTA enabled the US to flood the Mexican market with sugary drinks, processed foods, and other staples of noxious, corporate-driven existence.
American fast food chains and convenience stores rapidly proliferated, and, as the New York Times noted in a report headlined A Nasty, NAFTA-Related Surprise: Mexico’s Soaring Obesity, Walmart was the country’s largest food retailer as of 2017. This in a country whose traditional cuisine appears on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...
I have a good friend from Mexico who offers me a Gatorade each time we go biking. Meanwhile, I make home-made "Mexican Gatorade" with cold water, lime juice and salt. Why does over-priced commercial shit do so well in this market? And how can Mexicans - with one of the finest cuisines on the planet - eat fastfood shit so much?
No entiendo.
Guacamole or McDonald's special sauce? Is this really a hard choice?
"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.