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To: quehubo who wrote (141186)	7/19/2010 9:24:17 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 543302

As best I recall from my childhood in the mid-60's onwards, all the bad stuff people consume today was already out in the marketplace, put there by the big food companies and the first fast food chains. Government back then was still trying to preach the food pyramid and healthy eating, though no doubt farm subsidies helped to shape the move to more and more corn. I see this mostly as the fault of the food/pharma elements of the complex, with government not stepping up to do the right thing healthwise by opposing some of the big agribusiness interests. But the many, many billions of dollars made from selling American all that junk in the last 50 years went mostly to the private sector. They are the ones who marketed it heavily to kids to get them hooked on junk food for life, quite successfully in most cases. I went to the doctor last week for the first time in two years for a physical, and what I saw in the waiting room was scary. How people let themselves get like that is bad enough, but knowing that a lot of SP500 "food" companies were the prime aiders and abettors is even sadder.

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