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- There's a cool book I didn't finish White Bread by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. It talks about the history of store bought bread supplanting home baked bread, and the marketing wars waged both for and against store bought bread. I'm gonna start it up again and I recommend it.
- One very simple thing people can do that costs no money and they can keep buying exactly the same products they do now -- just less of it -- is stop overeating.
https://www.treehugger.com/health/overeating-terrible-planet...
As for industrial food, and how it got to be, I strongly recommend this book by Aaron Bobrow-Strain https://www.amazon.com/White-Bread-Social-History-Store-Boug...
- You might be interested in the book "White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf" by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
A lot stems from the late 18th century concern that filthy immigrants were making unhealthy food in local bakeries. It was better -- so they said -- to eat mass-produced breads baked into identical loaves with small, evenly distributed air holes by clean machines and in a pure, clean white color to make it clear there weren't any bugs or other impurities.
From there it was a process of mass industrialization and tweaking the ingredients to minimize costs and optimize baking times.
