“It was perhaps just a matter of time before issues of health — not policies over health-care provision but actual human health — would enter into our politics,” surmises Jeffrey A. Tucker in The Epoch Times. “We look at pictures of people in cities or at the beach in the 1970s and compare them with today and the results are shocking. We have changed as people and for the worse.”
Jeff Tucker is trying to explain the background for a big policy-interest shift, as a result of the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., endorsement of Donald J. Trump. Kennedy’s big issue is health, and Trump’s gone along with it, willing to make it a part of his agenda.
In “How Did Health Become a Political Issue?” Tucker focuses first on the COVID debacle, moving on to the real culprit: government.
Or, technically, government and industry, combined into one huge Stay Puft Marshmallow of Destruction. For behind our changing eating patterns and food habits are government tariffs, subsidies, researchstrategies, diet crazes, and much, much more.
Perhaps even bigger than Big Pharma is Big Agribiz, a conglomerate of companies pushing lab-created additives and worse on a trusting public, or, as Tucker puts it, “many decades of heavy government subsidies for the worst food, and so much in the way of corn, soy, and wheat are produced that we’ve invented new ways to use it.”
But it’s not really “we’ve.” The Standard American Diet (SAD) wouldn’t have existed were it not for the USDA and the FDA and a whole alphabet soup of bureaus captured by the industries they were assigned to regulate, working together in a Big Biz/Gov partnership to create a Big Problem in the general population.
Somehow, though, when asked about the government causes of SAD, RFKj said he wouldn’t abolish anything. He merely wants “better regulations.”
Someone needs a fast …from Big Government.
That someone? Kennedy.
And America.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Of course, even in the hypothetic case in which a public interest can be coherently identified and a regulatory body is somehow reformed to serve that interest, the forces that led to perverse operation of that body will not go away, and will over time pervert it.
Some relief may come if the Supreme Court continues down a path of rejecting the unconstitutional state of administration by unelected regulators. But I doubt the courage of the Justices, the public may be steered to acquiesce to Amendment of the Constitution to allow such regulation at a federal level, the constituent states will surely expand their bureaucracies to assume powers forgone at a federal level, and legislatures have in the past, are in the present, and will be in the future captured by rent-seekers and by the thoughtless.
American diet is based on the food pyramid, which they have been pushing for 50+ years.
Turns out that it was wrong.
Turns out that much of it was created based on incorrect input from agribusiness.
And if they were going to regulate something worthwhile, there wouldn’t be corn sugar in 2/3 of the products in Grocery stores
A government-pushed obsession which has persisted for decades and continues today, is the demonization of salt. A very small subset of the population genuinely needs to watch salt intake, but the vast majority of us can consume it to taste without worry. Lacking salt makes a person weak in mind and body, exactly how the government likes us.