DNF @ 44%

You ever read something and you just know the person writing it is some smug, older white guy, who is reviewing what he wrote with a satisfied cheshire grin? "Yes, yes. I am very smart."

Too opaque for the general layman. Too much of an aggressive hit piece from a guy expressing his victim complex for anyone within the industry. Too triggering with questionable biomarker references for anyone struggling to learn more about nutrition to help restrictive eating disorders. Who is this book even for, aside from this guy's ego?

It's capitalism. Just say it's capitalism. It's not individuals within the system that want you silenced, Mr. Lustig. Or some grand conspiracy. Capitalism and the commoditificaton of food is the problem.

If you want nutrition advice, read Pollan. If you want politics and the why, read Marion Nestle and Michael Moss. Leave this one on the shelf.

DNF @ 22%. First chapter felt like a long advertisement/MLM sales pitch. Utterly underwhelming.

Any leftist who finished this book has my admiration and condolences.

I tapped out around 20% when Samuel's started quoting the World Bank on poverty inequality as though they don't literally cause this by looting, pillaging, and heavy-handedly forcing market systems that don't work on whole ass countries and followed up by quoting citizens of those countries on how isolated they feel in their colonization (finessed to not indict neoliberal capitalism, of course).

This is apologia for neoliberal ideology designed to make you look the other way while actual research is damning it.

DNF @ 35%

If you're an abusive parent looking to be vindicated in abusing your child and need to justify continuing to abuse your adult child if they haven't cut you off, this is your book.