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General Mills strives to give you the impression that you'll be healthy if you eat their products. If they fail at maintaining this impression, you won't go Cuc
by maxharris 4y ago
General Mills strives to give you the impression that you'll be healthy if you eat their products. If they fail at maintaining this impression, you won't go Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. You won't crave those crazy Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares. You won't want Cookie Crisp cookies for breakfast. Oh those Golden Grahams — you won't want those either. Maybe you'll say that Trix is not for kids, or that Kix shouldn't be tested on kids. And when you get sad about all of it, you can pour your tears into a pint of Häagen-Dazs.
See for yourself:
https://www.generalmills.com/food-we-make/brands https://www.generalmills.com/food-we-make/brands, and take special note of the dark pattern. When you load the page, they show only twenty of their fifty brands. You have to click a button to see most of the cash cows that wreck your body.
- Comevius 4y agoWhat are you on, the list is in alphabetical order, Cheerios, Cocoa Puff and Cookie Crisp are all on the first page. Nothing this company sells is especially healthy, not even their healthy selection. Even Wheaties has like 5g sugar per 36g.
- maxharris 4y agoShouldn't they list them by revenue? That way, the brands most likely to be familiar to any given consumer would be easiest to spot. General Mills has many reasons to prefer that people don't form their own independent associations and opinions on their overall business, but these also boil down to growth, revenue and profit. The design of their website reflects this perfectly. There are many ways to be dishonest and there is great value in studying them. Humanity's progress depends on learning from the evil that is done. This is essentially like building a muscle; strain is required.
- Comevius 4y agoRemember this the next time you vote. Without progressive governments we wouldn't even know what's in that box of Cheerios. It's called consumer rights. In Europe we have many other rights too, such as worker rights.
- maxharris 4y agoThere is the unsolved problem of the governments themselves being co-opted. The situation in Europe is obviously changing, but it still is very much under the thumb of the United States. We have all been living in a fairy tale and we are all about to find out where the bottom line really is.
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- tmaly 4y agoIt seems like you're saying them stopping advertising to kids is a good thing?
- maxharris 4y agoYes.