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>>atestu+(OP)
Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK...

Here's industry reports

https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm...

https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio...

And straight up lobbying groups

https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline...

https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p...

Lobbying groups, putting out press releases, claiming victory...

Here's some things you won't find in any of the documents, including the PDFs at the bottom: community gardens, local food, farmers markets, grass fed, free range... Because agribusiness doesn't make money with those.

Just because you might like the results doesn't mean they aren't corrupt as hell

>>kristo+fO1
> community gardens, local food, farmers markets, grass fed, free range

How are these connected to nutrition? The difference in nutrition between a local banana and a non-local banana is ... zero?

>>xnx+z53
because they're a source of local, sustainable, seasonal, and healthy food that isn't peddled by agribusiness lobbies — grassfed beef specifically is leaner, lower in calories, and richer in beneficial nutrients

>>microm+a63
And costs significantly more money.

>>davidm+Eu3
ah but why...

* larger companies are producing it at a scale that includes efficiencies that can't be replicated on smaller scales

* the federal government is subsidizing larger farms, which have industry lobbying arms

* larger farms are more likely to be exploiting labor and working conditions

* all of the above?

>>microm+cH3
And none of that, if true, matters in the slightest to most of America because they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford these foods.

>>davidm+kS3
but it does matter, why not subsidize local produce instead of factory-farmed meat? if we just wave away "it's too expensive" as some natural state (which it's not, it's shaped by the government) then nothing ever improves

we need to ask why people can't afford what's arguably better for the environment and the workers producing it