Marion Nestle

as having the nutrition of two chapattis and being better than Indian breakfast foods.

So these are deliberate attempts to try to replace traditional foods in these countries with American ultra-processed products.

And that's a form of

food colonialism.

I don't know what you would call it, but it's certainly not good for the health of the people in those countries.

I haven't personally done the research, but there are research studies coming out, one after another after another, a lot of them from the Rudd Center on Food Policy, that looks at digital marketing to children, and it's horrifying.

I mean, it's just absolutely gasp-inducing because we don't see it.

As adults, we don't see it.

We're not watching social influencers.

We're not watching AIs.

algorithms.

We're not watching any of this stuff aimed at getting kids to want products.

And

The level of sophistication of the marketing is extraordinary because it's algorithm run.

And they can tell by the kinds of things that kids click on what they're interested in.

And they feed them more and more about what they're interested in.

And there are now influencers who are paid to market products, but they don't have to declare it.

They're supposed to declare it, but they don't always.

And there's very little monitoring of it.

I mean, I think what's going on digitally is so beyond what most people can comprehend.