Major food companies are facing a $1 billion lawsuit that accuses them of deliberately engineering their products to be addictive, drawing direct comparisons to the tactics once used by Big Tobacco.
In the 1980s, tobacco giants quietly acquired some of America’s most beloved food brands.
They brought with them decades of proprietary research into addiction, craving, and consumer behavior, and they applied it to what Americans eat.
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