Health experts and activists at the Senate! On our way to making a change! 💪🏼

In the late 70s and the early 80s, a sinister series of events converged to change food and subsequently health in America indefinitely. A plague that crept like a fog while we slept, literally and figuratively blindly trusting that the powers that be would never betray us. I mean, it seemed unthinkable to question whether a corporation would poison us for profit. I mean, the widespread assumption, at least when I was a kid, was that they were acting on our behalf. They wanted to make food more affordable and more convenient. Home-cooked meals became fast food value meals. Libraries and bookstores with no food or drink policies installed cafes selling 500 calorie coffee drinks and pastries. Eggs became heart disease cholesterol bombs and honey nut Cheerios got labeled heart healthy. The default human condition in the 21st century is obese by design. Specific traceable forms of what's referred to as structural violence are created by the catastrophic quartet of big farming, big food, big pharma and big insurance. They systematically corrupt every institution of trust, which has led to the global spread of obesity and disease, dysfunctional and destructive agricultural legislation like the Farm Bill, which favors high yield genetically engineered crops like corn and soy, leading to the proliferation of empty calories saturated with all of these toxins that we've been talking about today for three hours. It seems like we can never say enough about it. And then this glut of cheap calories provides a boon to the food industry giants. They just turn it into a bounty of ultra processed factory assembled foods and beverages.