My recent comments about the takeover of school cafeterias by fast-food franchises have elicited responses from some of the affected companies defending the practice.
When something goes against your profits, you are forced to counter it even if it results in your actions causing direct harm to your clients.
So cigarette companies will pour funds into marketing and oppose any attempts at restricting cigarette sales. Even going as far as to speak highly about the goodly tax revenues each smoked stick generates.
The National Rifle Association will spend millions each year to ensure there is no ban on assault rifles, despite dozens of mass shootings each year and no real justification to carry such high-powered weapons.
And so the PR machine of those who grow rich from selling fatty foods to kids with expanding waistlines, is cranking up as a more informed society is demanding solutions to our obesity epidemic in schools.
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