"Functional Food"

[talon]

http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/28/food-is-the-new-pharma-nestle-aims-to-enter-the-functional-foods-market/?hpt=Sbin

Now, that's something that should rightfully terrify all of us - food pumped full of drugs and making spurious health claims.

I won't be buying them. Real food has more and better benefits than pumped up, junked up, processed food.

I am considering a partial boycott of Nestle products or any other products that scream "Improves Digestion!" or "Prevents Diabetes/Obesity/Alzheimer's/Heart Disease!", "Now With Added Calcium!" - anything that has a "health" claim attached, although I may scale it up to a full blown boycott.

I don't want a prescription to be able to go grocery shopping. I don't want my food to be stripped of all its natural goodness and then be chemically enhanced to give it some level of artificial nutrition.

I want my food to taste good, to taste like the food it is - I don't want cranberries that taste like apples or apples that taste like grapes, I don't want cheese tasting like eggs or bread like steak. (I don't know that the last two exist, but it seems inevitable, doesn't it?)

I don't want "functional food", I want real food. The last paragraph of the article is a sane one.