The part about parents not being allowed to hit their kids but being allowed to feed them harmful food… that one shook me. It’s uncomfortable, but it’s true. Not all harm is loud or immediate. Sometimes it’s slow, quiet, and packaged as convenience. Your point about conditioning is real too many adults don’t even know how to break out of the habits they grew up with.
And this makes it more dangerous, because it can happen at scale for a long time, before anyone pays attention enough to make a change.