Each year more people by far die of chronic diseases caused by a bad food system than have died of coronavirus, but we don't treat it as a national emergency. Why? Because chemical companies, food companies, and big agricultural companies make trillions of dollars off that system
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I'm not going to disagree, but what is the solution?
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Our FDA and other agencies have been “captured” by corporate interests whose overreach those agencies were set up to protect us from. #VoteProgressive
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Isn't it a little naive to think giving government more power won't be used for the benefit of the bureaucratic machine?
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Replying to @mcompton78
It's not about "more power." Those agencies exist and they should. It's about how their power is used. Their power should be to protect the people, not corporate profits. Read Michael Lewis' book THE FIFTH RISK.

Mar 29, 2021 · 1:36 AM UTC

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The government will always be subverted by the powerful forces that surround it. Eliminate the FDA, disempower the subverters.
Can we start by ending the school meals milk mandate? Let’s get meat & dairy poisons out of Title I school meals!
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