On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:56:28 -0700, Immortalist wrote:

> Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for
> years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be
> addictive.

I suspect this is not exactly correct. There is bacon and there is an
item sold in stores and fast food joints called bacon. Once any additive,
let say any form of refined sugar, is introduced for whatever reason it
is no longer 'just bacon'. Also how animals are fed is part of of this.
This might account for the rat behavior. If these rats had been feed meat
organically raised, fed on organic feeds I would wager a difference in
behavior, in rats and humans, would become apparent.

Also, and this is as real as the object called "bacon" and pertains to
humans alone, how bacon is represented should be considered a product
additive. Close ups of gleaming grease dripping from well lite rotating
bacon burgers with vivid green and red therefore healthy lettuce and
tomato suggesting healthy bacon burgers all underscored with hoppy music
is a physical ingredient and a physical additive.

101 in all culinary arts from ancient times to now is the deep importance
of presentation. This is not a trivial matter or some fluff idea. A brain
scientist can easily account for physical triggers set off via sensory
stimulation enabled by mass media. Some of these guys even work or
consult for Ad agencies and PR firms who have The Greasy Corporate
Internationals as clients. Their goal - by-pass reason.

Instead what we have here is again targeting what are essentially the
victims, the end users as if they (really more like 'we') should know
better. Well we do, otherwise there would be no need for physically
addictive sugar type additives or PR firms.