I want what you're smoking. Who do you think President Fatass will side with?
Kennedy will be allowed to roll out a heathy eating initiative, just like previous admistrations have. He might be able to strengthen the federal nutrition guidelines a little bit and claim victory. The industry groups will play along, but they will make sure he's on a short leash. I don't think he'll last more than a year in government.
Big Food and Big Ag care about making money, often through collusion that’s swept under the rug by their lobbies. If RFKJ was taking them on from the Democrat side you’d be wetting your pants in joy. Since he defected from a prominent Dem family now you act like even trying to better things is a waste of time. Big Food and Big Ag will sell and grow whatever makes money. Make the healthy stuff more profitable for Big Ag and Big Food. Incentivize consumption of said foods through aid programs and school food programs. Just like the food lobby did with cheap unhealthy shit since the 70s.
There is no inherent value to the food industry to produce unhealthy stuff—unless you consider connections to Big Pharma; but that’s a lesson for another time. They produce unhealthy stuff because they can take super cheap commodities and add sugar and fat and bullshit and sell it for a small fortune. They’ll happily make more healthy foods if they have the financial incentive to do so.
The current system is broken but can easily be fixed. The poors you claim to care about are the ones loading up on monoculture ag products from dollar stores and discount grocery stores and leading the nation in consumption of HFCS and nutritionally valueless refined starches. And, shockingly, obesity! Usually on an EBT card!
When we quit literally subsidizing the consumption of poison, maybe we’ll see some improvement. This is actually a much easier nut to crack than healthcare. People with influence actually want to fix the food stamen.
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