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RECONNECTING LOCAL FARMERS AND LOCAL EATERS—ONE SEASON, ONE FREEZER, ONE TRUTH AT A TIME.
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How Can We Trust Corporations With Our Food When Political Spending Is Written into their Cost of Doing Business? (opens the original)
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Every election cycle, America’s largest food companies, agricultural corporations, processors, distributors, retailers, and trade associations spend millions of dollars on campaign contributions and lobbying. Republicans. Democrats. It doesn’t matter who’s in power or who’s going to be. They invest in relationships because access has value. That’s not a conspiracy. It’s how Washington works.Political spending has become another line item in the cost of doing business. Like marketing, legal fees,
Food Safety Was Never "Government Waste" (opens the original)
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“Elections have consequences.”Maybe in this case, “Fuck around and find out” is even more appropriate.We’re dealing with New World screwworm concerns, recurring food-borne illness outbreaks, and an internet full of people claiming the “deep state evil food corps” are intentionally contaminating fresh fruits and vegetables to force Americans back onto processed food.I’m not making that up. Perhaps I should say “I shit you not” considering we are de
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