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Striking: the people creating convenience foods are not in the same target market as those consuming them. They maximize the amounts of fat, salt, and sugar in order to sell more to consumers -- "it's what kids want!" -- while knowing the nutritional profile is terrible, and isn't something they would put in their own bodies.

It's not a diatribe against corporations, or even food corporations! So far, Moss looks at the optimization tools that food scientists use to maximize flavor and minimize cost, the long-range tactics they used to replace highschool Home Economics classes with ads for pre-packaged dinners, and the awareness everyone in the industry seems to have of every product's delicate balance of salts, fats, and sweeteners.

Interesting timing, reading about the life and times of Billy Graham, then hearing that he passed away. It's no wonder that evangelicals turned to politics with all the grassroots internal politicking Graham and Jerry Falwell did during their lives. It's more of a wonder that they didn't start their political schemes earlier.

Growing up in fundamentalism, you think that you've always believed what you've believed, and that your church follows a plain reading of the scriptures, and has as close an understanding of them as the early church as it's possible. The history of Evangelicals, fundamentalists, charismatics, and the sects and ministers who shaped them proves this is not so.