. . . (food) additives aren't just bad in a special, toxicological, narrow sense,
but also because they are "facilitators": they allow us to produce
rubbish food, preserve it, and make it more attractive, ultimately
producing fat people with quintessentially English teeth. In those
terms additives were always part of a bigger problem of cruddy
lifestyles . . .
- Ben Goldacre, Guardian Bad Science