While motley would likely disagree and refer me to occam's razor, I truly believe that there is a cadre of high echelon individuals, who at the very least are hardcore cynical exterminists that are pleased to see impovershed masses literally eat themselves into early deaths upon cheap, poisonous, foodlike addictive substances, which the elite avoid like the plagues they are. All Organic goodness for them. But I believe they are more involved and proactive. See Rumsfeld and Aspartame...

You see, they are launching a breakaway civilization. They have compiled the data of all recorded human achievement, into a new level where the computer-machines are so complex they design and program themselves. The elite want to eugenicize away the masses, in order inherit a depopulated Earth as an Eden Spaceship for themselves. They plan to be served like emperors by their AI robotics systems. They want to do away with humanity, and play Gods on their New Earth. It's a sick plan for the planet...