GOOD-MOOD FOOD IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
Mind control drugs as medicine in food? A scheme to insert chemicals into food to make people slimmer is being funded and investigated by British Government-backed scientists. They want to change the structure of food by introducing chemicals such as tryptophan to alter people's moods, make them happier, and therefore, in theory, make them eat less.

The 'happy food' study is being funded by the Medical Research Council (which receives $300 million in state cash per year) and Unilever (producer of Wall's Ice Cream, Birds Eye and Flora products).

Critics such as Professor Tim Land, a leading authority on diet, believe the consequences could be much more sinister and far-reaching, and warn of an Orwellian nightmare. "This could be a slippery slope," said Prof. Land. "Twenty or 30 years from now, states or companies could be using this technique to exercise mass psychological control-and people will be asking why they were not told in time."

Source: The Mail, UK, 10 July, 1998