This movie is in alignment with SuperSize Me and Got the Facts on Milk?.
The vital organs of the USG (Department of Agriculture, FDA, Congress...) are as assaulted and degraded as the vital organs of any hooked-on-nachos-and-fries school child.
A weak and pudgy USA was a pushover when it mattered, yet it still pretends to be a player, "winning wars" for its donor controllers.
The Smedley Butler era Business Plot against FDR was long ago successful, at least since Reagan's term. Thinking some porky establishment in Washington DC is going to save us this late in the game seems pretty dated, not to mention unrealistic.
What world capital has that kind of power? Against Coca-Cola? Again Nestles? You've gotta be kidding me, right?
One idea I've clung to over the years: why don't we have private sector companies that specialize in edgy advertising, employing counter-intelligence the way we need, and the production of which propaganda the USG is apparently incapable?
I'll keep buying your coffee, and subscribing to your on-line games, if you promise to keep hitting out hard against junk food culture. Deal? Why can't it work?
The status quo is we somehow expect private sector media news companies to exercise their juice through channels. But which such media have such juice anymore? Who takes up the cause of youngsters against Diabetes Inc? Pediatricians?
Obnoxico rules the roost and it's hard to see who has enough muscle to challenge the pervasive ideology of a soulless corporate personhood. Not the World Health Organization it turns out.
Uncle Sam? Is he still on life support? Seems to me he flat-lined some decades ago.
I'm getting a strong Morlocks versus Eloi vibe. A predatory intelligence, some Bell Curve's upper half, is quite willing to exploit its trusting victims, by means of cartoons.
"Eat lots of sugar and become a basket case" say the immortal cartoon characters, not physical beings themselves. We have the makings of a horror film here.
Did you know that FDA nutrition guidelines mandate no upper limit on calories from sugar?
That North Americans are among the most malnourished anywhere is raw ammo for those hoping to suggest some alternative wiring, experiments with other approaches.
Could we experiment more with how we do food in schools? What about those cooking shows, saved to the school server?
Various talking heads tell us that a foreign power and declared enemy of the USA, hellbent on its destruction, would be hard pressed to do as much harm as the junk food and junk science industries.
The logical conclusion is that some alien ideology is indeed entrenched.
Fed Up offers some hope, but as long as the answer involves looking towards DC for leadership, I question whether that hope is misplaced.
Expecting USG politicians to regulate from on high, to protect citizens and guests against predators, is expecting too much.
