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The Government is owned by the Major Corporations
As a child I used to watch the Saturday propaganda reels that passed for entertainment. My favorites were the ones on industrial processes. I was always excited to learn "How they did that", whatever it was.
One piece I vividly remember was how the public had been rescued from the "dirty food" people by the army of government inspectors. These fearless souls worked ceaselessly to insure that only the best foods made it to the table of the American consumer.
Alas, that promise has been betrayed. On some level it began with the tedious nature of repetitive food preparation. But on a more cynical level, it began when major corporations sought to control the people who inspected their products. Through political appointments, "revolving door" consulting and hiring, the corporations managed to place their people behind the desks of the government groups charged with regulating them. After that, every food short-cut that added to profitability became "the only safe way to do it."
To compound the problem, they then became the major research donors to the land grant universities so that they had a ready made army of highly educated professionals who could find the benefit in whatever new product came to market.
Probably the most egregious example of this has been Monsanto. See http://www.saynotogmos.org/monsanto_1.htm for details. With their "round-up ready" soybeans, Genetically Modified Corns and dubious in-house research, they have forced upon the public a level of food that no one would have knowingly requested.
Sadly, such attitudes towards the public and the people who grow our food reflect those of the elitists of France prior to the revolution.
