Grace Price: We are bombarded by the food industry trying to sell us their products

"We are bombarded by the food industry trying to sell us their products. I mean, Calley mentions this all the time and I repeat it, which is that there's nothing more profitable than a child in this country. I mean, why else would the food and beverage industry spend $2 billion per year advertising their ultra processed foods and sugar filled drinks to teens?
Because they want to make the most money, which makes sense. They're trying to make more profit. And so it's extremely difficult. You wake up and you, first thing you do is consume dessert for breakfast, whether it be in the form of cereal, whether it be orange juice. So you're already getting a glucose spike first thing in the morning. You go to school. Some schools require you consume the lunch that they serve you, which shouldn't even be considered food when you compare it to that of lunch within France, for example. And if you don't do that, then you're getting food from the vending machine, or you're going to a fast food restaurant with your friends. Then after that, you're snacking the minute you get home because the 3 p.m. slump is real, and you have tons of homework to do. So you are, again, eating ultra processed foods, candy bars, drinking Coca-Cola, drinking energy drinks filled with sugar and these industrialized oils. And then, once it comes to dinner, if you're lucky and your mom still cooks, then you might have some real food. But even then, you don't recognize that this is what food should be because of the way that you were raised, and that's what we have to realize."