comments_image Comments  Top 10 Ways Corporate Food Is Making Us
Fat and Threatening Our Food Supplies  It all starts with the
collosal power that organized businesses have over Congress.
While it is much better than the fascisms of the Right and the
Left, one of the big drawbacks of corporate democracy is that
the people are often outgunned. Large corporations account for
half of the national economy and pay more for lobbyists to write
and pass laws in Congress favorable to themselves than they do
in Federal taxes. The way in which the Congressional committees
that are supposed to watch certain industries actually become
beholden to them is called ‘legislative capture.’  For this
reason, I don’t entirely trust the US government any more to
look out for our health. We are increasingly exposed to
thousands of chemicals that haven’t really been tested (plastics
are full of them). We’re not even given the courtesy of knowing
which foods are genetically modified so we can make a market
choice for the natural one