Edward Bernays (link)
He is considered the "father of propaganda."
I like bacon too. After all, who doesn't.
I'll just give a sample of things that he accomplished to whet your appetite, until there's more time, perhaps in my thread on programming. Bernays was hired by the pork industry to increase sales of bacon. The video gets into that a little. His uncle was Sigmond Freud. He utilized psychological manipulation to employ techniques to promote cigarettes to women, promote wars and deceive public opinion into following government dictates. Bacon was sublime and perhaps a small deception the way he manipulated, but the cost of lives from cigarettes and wars totals more than I can guess.
I will still enjoy my nitrite/nitrate free bacon, but have learned how the games are played so I don't participate.
I like that green eggs and ham comment....funny. 😄