this is by design

they allow small amounts of poison in food, then explicitly tell people it's poison through the media

there are articles about how people use energy drinks mysteriously die sooner while the ingredients iinclude B-12 in a form bonded to cyanide

there are too many people on the planet, it's causing global warming, and we need to find any way possible to reduce the population so we are less likely to all die

this is a very fair way of doing it. cigarettes will kill you, don't smoke them, available in stores everywhere. YOLO, keep drinking until you get liver failure. why not have some delicious highly processed fake food with gut bacteria killing preservatives that will fuck your stomach microbiome? all of the poisons take years to kill you because frogs boiled slowly don't jump out of the pot

it's awful but at least fair. we all get to "choose" and I put that in quotes because free will doesn't exist. I say this as someone who consumes poison and can't entirely stop despite knowing the consequences.

a good rule of thumb: if it's processed, it's poison, if it won't rot within a week unrefrigerated, it's poison, if you feel very high and happy immediately following consuming it, it's poison

it's hard because the right thing to do is drink water and eat vegetables and legumes and fresh things... but it's hard because they have made food in a way in which addictive drugs are integrated into the food, and it's not called that

i know that coffee is for stupid people, but i drink it anyway because im addicted. i end up in pain and miserable and just say "fuck it" and it makes my health worse.