It sort of makes sense, actually: Junk food consumption is correlated with violent crime. Virtually all the criminals in prison across the country are nutritionally imbalanced due to their consumption of processed junk foods and their lack of sufficient nutritional supplementation. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if a study revealed that fried snack foods like Doritos are a favorite food among violent criminals. These are, after all, the kind of people depicted in some Doritos advertisements.

In my view, the violent Doritos commercials accurately reflect the senseless, violent behavior that typifies people (younger males, mostly) who consume large quantities of processed junk foods, sugary soft drinks and gimmicky “sports drinks.” These are the people who end up being put on antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, after which they sometimes end up in a school shooting rampage.

It might make a good Doritos commercial, actually: A kid grows up on junk food and diet soda laced with aspartame. He’s drugged up on Ritalin and Prozac. One day he brings a semiautomatic rifle to school, barges into a classroom and opens fire on his classmates, shooting and screaming, “I WANT MY F*@!KING DORITOS!”

✖ Via NaturalNews: “Doritos ads represent sick, demented nature of junk food companies and their products” by Mike Adams Feb. 27th, 2010

I’m not sure if he meant to say TV cause violence or junk food cause violence. The two are probably linked (as previous studies already suggested). I’d really like to get my hands on the correlation coefficients used for this “analysis” though. Food consumption may be part of the explanation, it may also be a side effect caused by other factors (the same goes for television). Furthermore, I’m not very confortable with the whole scapegoating practice : blame it on the Doritos. Somehow, I doubt Doritos alone explain those (and I’ll avoid the cliché consisting in naming famous killers who were vegetarians).

Mike Adams is the Editor of NaturalNews.com. You can read his bio on his official website.

Learn more about Doritos’ latest marketing campaign Viralocity.



• Feb 28, 2010 link notes tagged: communication  technology  food  junk  television  violence  murderer  rampage  viral 

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