At 1.3 million views and counting, below is the video highlighted in the recent NY Times article on how sugar is toxic.
This is a familiar story for anyone who has read the excellent Omnivore's Dilemma or seen the movie Food, Inc. (both can be found in the 'Good Books and Films' box on the right side of this blog). What may be less familiar is the fact that the U.S. federal government is directly supporting the poisoning of the American public through fructose (corn syrup) subsidies to Iowa farmers.
Please allow me to repeat that: our government is helping to poison us with our own tax money.
While some members of Congress are working to put an end to this deplorable policy, Big Food, the farm lobby and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have thus far successfully fought off cuts to corn subsidies.
A perhaps more fundamental way to get a handle on this problem is by replacing the income tax with a consumption tax (which I've written about here).
As an aside, has anyone out there heard Warren Buffet, Coca-Cola's largest investor, address what Dr. Lustig calls the 'Coca-Cola Conspiracy'? It would seem that Warren is turning a blind eye to the fact that he is financing one of the nation's (and now the world's) fastest growing and most serious health epidemics.
This is a familiar story for anyone who has read the excellent Omnivore's Dilemma or seen the movie Food, Inc. (both can be found in the 'Good Books and Films' box on the right side of this blog). What may be less familiar is the fact that the U.S. federal government is directly supporting the poisoning of the American public through fructose (corn syrup) subsidies to Iowa farmers.
Please allow me to repeat that: our government is helping to poison us with our own tax money.
While some members of Congress are working to put an end to this deplorable policy, Big Food, the farm lobby and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have thus far successfully fought off cuts to corn subsidies.
A perhaps more fundamental way to get a handle on this problem is by replacing the income tax with a consumption tax (which I've written about here).
As an aside, has anyone out there heard Warren Buffet, Coca-Cola's largest investor, address what Dr. Lustig calls the 'Coca-Cola Conspiracy'? It would seem that Warren is turning a blind eye to the fact that he is financing one of the nation's (and now the world's) fastest growing and most serious health epidemics.
Superb video-lecture !!
ReplyDeleteI stopped drinking soda drinks 25 years ago, mainly because the sweetness was far too sweet to my liking and secondly because I had learned that the "sugars" contained within were synthetic - if that's the right word, meaning artificially fabricated by some mad scientist. Ditto for "fruit" juices.
But I still drink alot of tea, coffee, beer, wine and whisky(rarely), so I better be careful.
Thanks again.
P.S. speaking of whisky, you may enjoy this Scottish film from 1949. Cheers !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-GEAgSFwyE&feature=related
This was excellent - thanks for posting.
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