The Food Is Poison & The Lobbyists Know It
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I’ve been a big supporter of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement since the beginning—not because I’m some Instagram wellness influencer trying to sell you a $22 bottle of chlorophyll water, but because I believe the basic premise is correct: the food and pharma lobbies have way too much control in this country. The industries responsible for making you sick are also the ones selling you the “cure.”
MAHA, for all its messy edges (and yes, there are plenty), actually touches a nerve that more people should be paying attention to. Whether it’s Bobby Kennedy Jr. trying to get petroleum-based food dyes out of our kids’ cereal, or Trump’s commission taking aim at childhood chronic illness, the movement is putting a spotlight on something most Americans are too busy doom-scrolling or eating microwave sludge to notice: our food is trash, and our health care system is designed to keep it that way.
I’ve seen firsthand how broken it is. You try to eat healthy here, and half the grocery store is lined with products that barely qualify as food—chemical concoctions designed in labs with turkey basters and labcoats. Then, when your body starts to break down (shocking!), you’re sent to the pharmacy, where your options are “maximum strength” or “ultra maximum strength” versions of pills that no longer work because the good ingredients were pulled years ago to prevent people from getting high or healthy—whichever came first.
Meanwhile, companies are still allowed to pump our food full of artificial sweeteners, inflammatory seed oils, and preservatives so potent they could probably steralize and tranquilize a small horse. And that’s just the stuff they list on the label.
Transparency? The FDA won’t even require companies to tell you how they engineered your cereal to taste like Extra Strength chocolate-covered crack dust for minors™, before marketing it with cartoons.
But yeah, let’s keep locking up Sudafed at my local CVS so I have to listen to the underpaid, agitated-for-no-reason “employee” sigh and exhale every time I need to get a product out of the cages we keep them in, in our now-Third-world country.
So when MAHA comes along and says, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t feed kids petroleum byproducts and call it lunch,” I’m on board. When it says, “Maybe chronic illness in 9-year-olds isn’t normal,” I nod along. And when it says, “Let’s figure out how to stop this disaster before everyone under 30 needs a statin and an Ozempic drip just to function,” I say hell yes.
So, after my last conversation with Dave Collum, I’ve been thinking a lot more about food in terms of the concrete, chemical reality of what we’re putting into our bodies.
That conversation wandered through topics like pharma, health, and nutrition, and even the shocking difference in how food affects...(READ THIS FULL ARTICLE, 100% FREE, HERE).