Yep, me too. The thread got off into all different kinds of food and exercise but it is obvious that pasta will always be a big seller. A company may take that revenue and try to buy companies or promote other products leading to the demise of a "pasta" company. But it ain't the pasta that's causing the trouble, it's the management.
I understand why this thread went off in to the tangent of fod and exercise, but it still all boils down to the economics of making junk and people dciding they don't want junk anymore.
These food companies are not going to get any sympathy from this person who isn't on any kind of a diet. I love pasta, and eat lots of it. But I also make a lot of it myself.