Plenty of people have gotten rich by selling unhealthy products.
For years, tobacco companies denied smoking caused lung cancer, despite overwhelming medical and scientific evidence, and fought tooth-and-claw against government efforts to educate the public about the health risks of smoking.
Remember Saturday morning cartoon shows, whose main function was to pitch sugar-laden breakfast cereals to kids?
” … [I]n the early 1970s, … the leading trade group representing both sugar growers and sugar refiners, launched a campaign premised on the idea that sugar was a useful diet aid. The campaign came during a time when the Sugar Association itself was discovering links between the consumption of sugar and conditions like diabetes and obesity.”
Business is a lot of things to many people, but “honest” usually ain’t one of them. (Click here for story.)
Image: This sugar ad implied eating sugary foods keeps you thin.