MAHA Storms the Capitol (Conspirituality podcast episode #226)

Cleanse the soil! Purify the blood! Save the children! Make America Healthy Again!

On Sept 23, Jordan Peterson, RFK Jr., rising alt-health stars Casey and Calley Means, and many other nutrition non-experts gathered for a live streamed event they called the American Health and Nutrition Roundtable, hosted by Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

Their subtitle, A Second Opinion, was an apt description for the alternative fact-filled diatribes that ensued. The soil has been poisoned, everyone is fat and sick, the entire medical industry is corrupted by Big Pharma, and Big Food is enacting a genocide on the American people via metabolic dysfunction. COVID skepticism and anti-vax messaging lurked just beneath the surface.

The speakers painted a terrifying picture and then presented themselves as benevolent common-sense saviors. At the climax of her speech, Casey Means, fresh from her career-boosting Tucker Carlson appearance, took a deep breath before declaring that this is all actually a spiritual crisis
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/226-maha-storms-the-capitol

Big Food Raking in Huge Profits From Price Hikes as US Hunger Persists: Analysis

"Big Food's staggering increase in earnings shows they did not need to raise prices so high on consumers but did so anyway to maximize record profits," said Liz Zelnick, director of Economic Security and Corporate Power at Accountable.US, in a statement. 

"It's shameful that Americans are left food insecure and have to skip meals while corporations and their wealthy shareholders enjoy the spoils of supersized profits under unjustified price hikes," she added. "It's clear that the food industry will not hold itself accountable. It's time Congress do more to rein in corporate greed, one of the main factors currently driving up costs for families." 

"It's time Congress do more to rein in corporate greed, one of the main factors currently driving up costs for families."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/food-price-hikes-us-hunger

Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry

"It's incredibly influential so if the Academy is corrupt then nutritional policy in the US is going to be corrupt," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of US Right to Know, and a co-author of the study. The investigative nonprofit developed the study with researchers from nonprofits and universities in the US and UK...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions

Want to fix obesity and climate change at the same time? Make Big Food companies pay - Vox

A new report says food companies are pursuing profit at the expense of public and environmental health. That has to change.....
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/27/18197428/obesity-climate-change-solutions

Don't Look, But a Couple of Mega-Companies Are About to Take Over Your Food Supply -- Mother Jones

Farmers—especially the ones who grow the corn and soybeans that churn through our food system and fuel our country's penchant for hamburgers and bacon—are in a tight spot. For seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers, these growers depend on a tiny number of companies that have enormous leverage to raise prices.....
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/archer-daniels-midland-merger-bunge-soybeans-monsanto-farmers-grain/

6 Ways This Ivy League University Is Acting Like a PR Firm for Junk Food, GMOs and Pesticides | Alternet

Consumers lose when professors get their marching orders from Big Ag and Big Food.....
http://www.alternet.org/food/6-ways-cornell-university-acts-pr-firm-junk-food-gmos-and-pesticides