Will Trump Save Us From Big Food?
One of the great gifts of the Trump Era is that we have come to know the institutions we grew up trusting are corrupt. FBI, corrupt. CIA, corrupt. Judiciary, corrupt. Not that we grew up knowing the NIH or the CDC, but we know now they are corrupt, too.
We knew the media and the academy were corrupt, but we have come to realize they may be irremediably corrupt. I did not know that medicine was corrupt. I had a sneaking suspicion that Big Science was corrupt, but now we know for certain.
I certainly did not know there was such a thing as Big Food and that Big Food is corrupt and evil. Also, Big Food is joined at the hip with Big Pharma. They have set up a system where one makes us sick, and the other makes us medicated patients for life.
I am angry at what I have come to know through the work of Casey Means and Calley Means. Brother and sister, she is a Stanford-educated surgeon, though practicing that no longer. He was a Harvard MBA working at the top of major food companies. After what he saw, he walked away, too.
Did you know that we ingest a credit-card-sized amount of plastic every single week? Did you know that fifty percent of American children have some chronic health issue and that 50 years ago this was a mere one percent? Did you know that seventy-four percent of American adults now are overweight or obese and that close to fifty percent of children are overweight or obese? All of this is tied to our diet.
Casey Means says,
Half the country has prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, and thirty percent of teens now have prediabetes. This was a condition that no pediatrician would have seen in their lifetime 50 years ago. One percent of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. We have eighteen percent of teens with fatty liver disease, a disease that used to be in late-stage alcoholics.
She says,
Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the elderly. Young adult cancers are up seventy-nine percent. And this is the first year in American history we’re estimated to have over 2 million cases of cancer. 25% of American women are on antidepressant medication. Forty percent of 18-year-olds have a mental health diagnosis. We have the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the entire developed world, despite spending 2X on infant and maternal care than any other country.
Calley Means explains that the dire state of our health started when Big Tobacco got into massive trouble over secondhand smoke in the ’80s, and they used their enormous cash reserves to buy food companies. Tobacco giants R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris became the largest food companies in the world. And their scientists immediately went to work in making food as addictive as smoking. Food in boxes and bags are now loaded up with sugar and chemicals to increase shelf life. What’s more, along came “ultra-processed food” and seed oils, all poisonous to our bodies. We came to crave these things that harm our bodies.
The next thing Big Tobacco/Food did was capture the federal agencies that were supposed to protect us from such Frankenfoods. Big Tobacco/Food became the largest lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., bigger and more powerful than oil.
Calley Means says, “They shifted their playbook on lobbying and rigging institutions of trust to food.” So, what they did was create the “food pyramid” that says, for instance, carbs are good. We went along, not knowing it was not only wrong but dangerous. And then these same companies became a massive funding source for academic research papers used by federal agencies that say all of this was perfectly fine.
And once we eat their poisonous food and our bodies get all kinds of sickness, we go to our doctor who is trained to see you for a few minutes, refer you to a specialist or two or three or four, and write out Big Pharma prescriptions that you may be on for life. Big Food, Big Pharma, huge profits.
Casey Means says the answer to most of our chronic diseases is nutrition, but eighty percent of medical schools do not have a single class on nutrition. Your doctor will not mention nutrition. He will refer you to specialists and give you meds. Casey says there is nothing more profitable than a chronically sick kid. After they make them fat, Big Food/Pharma wants to put kids on Ozempic for life.
Do you see the cycle here?
Bobby Kennedy has seen this. And now we have Casey and Calley Means. I don’t know about you, but I am angry.
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