cereal

Many of us are lucky if we find time to scoff down some cereal before work.

Protose was a meat substitute of wheat gluten and peanuts, cooked up by the food reformer Dr. John Kellogg, the fellow whose name you know better from a line of sometimes quite sugary cereals.

Last year protesters gathered outside the company headquarters in Michigan, calling on it to remove artificial dyes from cereals such as Froot Loops.

The rack is soon invisible, lost in a crowd of happy cows, all feasting on the perfect nutritional ration of cereals.

And while those meals technically meet federal nutrition guidelines, they’re often composed of heavily processed foods: breakfast cereal, fruit juice, chicken nuggets, frozen pizza, corn dogs.