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HOW THE AMERICAN CULTURE OF CONVENIENCE IS KILLING US
By Daisy Luther Source: Waking Times In the United States, we are lucky to have massive convenience at our fingertips. I was talking to one of the instructors for the urban survival course, who is from Sweden, on a car … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Environment, GMOs, Health, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, American Culture, Consumerism, Convenience, Corporations, Economics, Exercise, Food, Food System, GMOs, Health, Junk Food, obesity, Physical Fitness, Processed Foods, technology, USDA, Walking
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The political logic of the junk food revolution
By Jonathan Cook Source: TruePublica Here is an article on food whose political implications are really worth considering. We already know that people in western societies, particularly the US and UK, are eating far too much junk food, and that this leads … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, Social Control, society
Tagged Big Ag, capitalism, culture, Health, Industrial Food, Junk Food, Processed Foods, Public Health, science, society
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The Globalisation of Bad Food and Poor Health: Sustainable Development or Sustainable Profits?
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In India, government … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Birth Defects, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diabetes, Factory Farms, Fast Food, Free Trade, GE Food, Global Food System, Globalisation, GMOs, Green Revolution, Junk Food, local economies, Local Foods, Localisation, Malnutrition, Monocrops, obesity, Pesticides, pollution, Processed Foods, Soil, TTIP
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McDonald’s cringe-inducing “Signs” ad receives richly deserved parody
By Joe Blevins Source: Onion AV Club In a development that should surprise no one with reliable Internet access and at least intermittent contact with the real world, McDonald’s suddenly-ubiquitous “Signs” ad campaign has met with immediate, strong backlash across … Continue reading
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