Episode 77: Are Food Corporations Deliberately Engineering Addiction Into Our Products?You open a bag intending to eat a few. The bag is empty thirty minutes later. You weren't hungry. You didn't enjoy the last half. But you couldn't stop. For decades, the food industry told us this was a personal failing. Internal documents now suggest it was the point.This episode explores:* The bliss point — the precisely engineered ratio of salt, sugar, and fat that overrides the brain's natural satiety signals* The 1999 Minneapolis meeting where food industry executives were shown health data and chose to protect market share* The internal language of "heavy users" — the same terminology the tobacco industry used for its most addicted customers* Harvard, Michigan, and Duke University research comparing food industry strategy directly to Big Tobacco* A 2026 class action lawsuit against Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, and General Mills citing strategies borrowed from tobacco* Why GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have fundamentally reframed the personal responsibility argumentFor believers, the documented internal research and the tobacco parallel provide evidence of a deliberate strategy to create dependency. For defenders of the industry, optimising for palatability is different from intentionally engineering addiction.What is certain: the bliss point is real. The addiction is measurable. And the people who could not stop eating were responding, predictably, to products designed to make them feel that way.Keywords: food addiction engineered, ultra processed food conspiracy, food corporations addiction truth, bliss point food industry, Big Tobacco food comparison, processed food designed to addict, is junk food deliberately addictive, food industry cover-up, Ozempic food addiction, ultra processed health risks

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