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In reply to the discussion: You want to fight obesity, try banning HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) [View all]felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and too many communities, especially the poor ones, have stores FULL of junk food, with NO access to healthy organically grown produce and products. Schools are serving junk, and our commercial junk food empire, is built around extremely unhealthy food additives that are totally unnecessary to be added to foods.
Unnecessary and toxic additives to food is what happens in unregulated 3rd world countries--because $$ greedy corporations do not regulate themselves, they just want profits and do not care about public health. So these companies will sell junk--and profit in the healthcare industry at the same time when people inevitably suffer consequences from eating too much of these additives.
Regulations are in place to assure that the common citizen has access to clean food and healthy and safe environment on an equal basis to the rich privileged people--THAT is why they are in place.
Adding toxins to food is both irresponsible and delusional--and has NOTHING to do with critical thinking. There is nothing wrong with teaching critical thinking too--this country has too little of it. Critical thinking is great--but so is responsibility to the planet and all the innocent beings living on it.