Posted on 07/20/2014 11:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Agree! The only way this is a problem is if corporations use government to keep the competition out. Many years ago, people worried about Sears dominating retail, then KMart came along, then Walmart came along. In a free market, these problems solve themselves. Besides, it amazes me that people think businesses want to poison their customers. It’s absurd.
Exactly and it is not just cherries, it is almost everything. Government regulations are atrocious.
Granted, I do think government has been somewhat asleep at the switch recently with regards to enforcing anti-trust laws.
think about it for just a minute....it is the taxpayers and voters who OWN these corporations...they are stockholders either directly or through their pension programs and retirement accounts. Try to buy a mutual fund that includes none of these evil corporations.....
/johnny
Big Food paying off Big Gov is probably why there are few restrictions on the types of “food” people can buy with food stamp cards. They could easily restrict EBT to healthy food only, like WIC does. But they don’t. Instead of buying lettuce, carrots, oatmeal, milk, meat, whole grain breads, the EBT recipients enrich Big Food by buying overpriced and nutritionally deficient Doritos, Pepsi, and Pop Tarts.
Again nice straw man.
Never said it was. The problem is it is added to things that taste like crap and that is loaded with crap that is bad for you.
Oh and this: "Scientists don't feed rodents MSG to make them fat..."
Reduced norepinephrine turnover in mice with monosodium glutamate-induced obesity
Atorvastatin improves insulin sensitivity in mice with obesity induced by monosodium glutamate
Type 2 diabetes mellitus was induced by monosodium glutamate in obese mouse model
Well I think we have figured out that you know exactly two things about the subject...
Jack and Shit...
But thanks for playing...
Looks like the moderators at that site too down my post... lol
It was something like this:
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.
Nice selfie!
Keep pissing them off.
/johnny
What you fail to understand is that the reason the government does much of those things Gen lists in his post is because Big Gub'ment and Big Agra are intertwined and Big Agra wants the Gub'ment to do most of those things.
Especially things that make it hard for Smaller Farms (non corp. farms) to compete.
You'd think after it being shown, over and over again, that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, that it might temper your enthusiasm to come back here, once again, to reinforce the fact that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Your enthusiasm for proving this to the forum is mind-boggling.
But here you are. Reminds of that definition of insanity.
You'd think after it being shown, over and over again, that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, that it might temper your enthusiasm to come back here, once again, to reinforce the fact that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Your enthusiasm for proving this to the forum is mind-boggling.
But here you are. Reminds of that definition of insanity.
Real monopolies can only exist where there is government force or collusion.
Be specific, what is it added to that tastes like crap?
Since glutamate is essential for human survival, and you get ten time more glutamate from natural sources than from added sources, please explain to us how the addition of a small amount of MSG to our food supply is detrimental to our health? Before you reply, please engage your brain.....and remember, you consume 10 times more glutamate from natural sources than gets added to food.
Your links are funny. It's like you just found out that when you cram lab animals with chemicals that have absolutely no relationship to real world consumption that bad things happen. If you overwhelm the body with anything, bad things follow. Scientists do this and then marvel at the resulting negative health results. It is a proven method for attracting grant money, but it does nothing to advance scientific knowledge.
Try eating 2 lbs of MSG every day for a month and let me know how you feel. But what person in the real world, or in their right mind, eats straight MSG? Try it with NaCl or table sugar, and then tell us about your health. You can die from drinking too much water, but water is good for you, right?
One thing we know for certain is that you are a moron. There's nothing wrong with being a moron, but the problem with you is that you don't realize it.
Well being it is added to add flavor anything it is added to.
BTW I noticed you glossed right over the MSG Obese Mouse thing.
Is it because you were flat out wrong or that you didn't understand all the big words?
BTW here is another for you: Study examines how food additive MSG contributes to obesity and liver disease
But keep posting Sparky eventually you may stumble onto being right once!~
FR is, unfortunately, not spared from them.
What facts are those Johnnie?
“Real monopolies can only exist where there is government force or collusion.”
Are you implying you don’t think there is collusion between these companies and the federal govt?
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