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The shift in the food industry towards chemical-laden products has allowed food corporations to create products that last longer, look better, and taste better to certain consumers. Certain chemicals in food products can be powerful enough to cause a physiological response in the body to create cravings, and even food addictions, and are used exactly for this purpose. Some additives, such as hormones and antibiotics, are used to support an expanding industrialized food production system. They are destroying small farms and humane farming practices in the process, while decreasing the quality and nutritional value of the end product…the food.
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Take for example the recent combined effort of various agricultural commodity groups who have “successfully pushed for language to be included in the pending 2017 House Agricultural Appropriations Bill that “urges” the U.S. Department of Agriculture to exempt their respective promotional groups from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.” (Source)
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The report, “Spinning Food,” by Friends of the Earth shows that food and agro-chemical companies “have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years on stealth PR tactics, deploying over a dozen front groups to push coordinated messages attacking organic food production, defending pesticides and the routine use of antibiotics and promoting GMOs — messages that are making their way into the pages of our largest media outlets.” (Source)
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originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: BO XIAN
What is sad is this is FOOD, we should have full access to what is in it and why.
Want to scare yourself? Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) by the FDA. It basically means we have been using this chemical/ingredient (and there are plenty) for over 40 years, so it has to be safe. No tests, no studies. www.fda.gov...
/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/default.htm
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: BO XIAN
I find it amazing how lackadaisical we are about food. The way we treat it, the way we waste it, don't question anything about it and what the %$$@ is in it.
But the thing that really amazes me is how little we pay people to cook/prepare it for us, we put this in our bodies and the prep cook can mess us up bad. We will pay a realtor, or car salesman big bucks to just show us stuff that we have pretty much decided we are going to buy. Maybe I am the only one that see it like that.
Big Food Seeks To Exempt Itself From The Freedom Of Information Act
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: BO XIAN
I saw this earlier.
The fact that they feel the need to hide something proves that something funny is 'in the water'. I don't trust these scoundrels for one second. They don't have the best interest of me or my family as a priority...just their profits. Even Whole Foods is in on it...just horrible.
originally posted by: Informer1958
a reply to: BO XIAN
Big Food Seeks To Exempt Itself From The Freedom Of Information Act
Big Government Seeks to Exempt Itself From The Laws Of Our Land.
Or better yet, All Criminals Seek To Exempt Themselves From All Laws Of Our Land.
We The Food Corporations do not want to be held "accountable", for all the dangerous chemicals, and Toxins, that causes all different kinds of cancers.
This is part of population control folks, nutrition is the last thing these greedy food corporation want. My best advice is to learn to grow your own.
Farmer Markets are also a good place to go to get healthy foods.
There are some good organic stores, but good luck trying to keep a budget, it is expensive.