Posted on 07/20/2014 11:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The difference between big government and big corp.
Starving people are bad for business for Corporations.
Starving people are good for a big government intent on complete control.
Sorry but your assertion is in direct opposition to the facts.
Processed food is one of the biggest causes of sickness in the US. Its why everyone is complaining about people being overweight and diabetic and a whole host of other maladies.
Look at the number of foods that have MSG in them. You know how scientists get fat mice to do studies on? They feed normal mice MSG.
Well, then I’ll been sick since about 1992.
My alternative was a sickly life.
If you don’t believe me, have your thyroid removed, and then, live by your own words and don’t take any medications.
It’s not a matter of whether or not you think the food is healthy. Some care about that, but the most danger is having all you eggs in a few baskets.
If any one of these huge conglomerates fail, we’ll have problems with our food supply. Along with small dispersed government we need to think about smaller more diversified everything, especially food production
Your post is that of a fool who knows nothing of farming.
We really enjoy the Safeway store brand that’s organic. Most of the items are non-GMO, additionally. We’ve tried everything from the jam to the cereals to the popcorn...
I’m thrilled there are so many more of these food choices now — not like the ol’ days where you had to join a food coop or search for a farmer’s market that was open on days off.
Prepper ping worthy?
The government has plenty of responsibility in not ensuring that there is a reasonable playing field with regards to food. How many politicians do you find promoting a small farmer? Then there’s uninformed consumerism, where people regularly enjoy food without considering where they got it from. Then there’s the fact that in the United States, GMOs rule. GMOs have a different composition, meaning otherwise okay foods can give you an allergic reaction because transgenic DNA changes the food chemistry.
This person doesn’t seem to realize that the food industry is less competitive than it should be BECAUSE of the government controls.
Nice a straw man argument. let us review. My position is if you eat nothing BUT processed food and then take drugs to counteract what that food does to your body you are still not healthy. This isn't rocket science its basic fact.
Was your thyroid removed because it was damaged by processed food? If not then what does it have to do with the point I made?
Big Government is in charge of the food system. Remember the Dairy Compact? The Egg Board? Peanut licensing? They were dumping millions of pounds of cherries and taking upwards of half the grape harvest in order to artificially keep prices high.
This author is a moron.
BFL.
The chart that shows who owns the ‘organic’ companies is VERY similar.
Stupid Hippies.
The vast majority of item those companies produce are prepared & packaged foods. Buy ingredients, instead, and most of their influence is neutered.
Your words “Healthy people don’t need to take medicine...”
This thread could sit comfortably on Daily Kos or DU.
Sheesh....what next, complaining about cops and “banksters”?
Big business can not prevent me from hunting or growing. Only the EPA can and will do that.
The article is very incomplete....
The government has an iron grip on the agricultural sector of this economy. The government forces growers to dump large portions of their crops in order to artificially raise prices. You need a federal license to grow a peanut. Ever heard of the Dairy Compact? The Egg Board? Did you know that in 2009 or so, millions of pounds of tart cherries were left to rot on the ground by government edict, in order to raise prices. The US had to import tart cherries to make pie filling that year. The government had a program that was taking upwards of half the crop of table grapes out of the market. It was finally tossed in a lawsuit. We have a Soviet-type agricultural system in this country. We have government programs paying farmers not to grow stuff, paying them to grow stuff, paying them if they grew too much or too little. It is totally insane what our government does and has been doing in some cases since the 30’s.
To write an article like this and totally ignore all this is beyond preposterous.
And the stock holders want to keep making a profit, long term. Can't do that with dead or sick customers.
The invisible hand of the market controls corporations, as it does all businesses.
Keep government out of it. Government is the cause of problems, not the solution.
/johnny
And that’s what’s being obscured by all this hyped-up anger at corporations and Wall Street.
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