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Or we could just inject a little free market capitalism into the food industry and let the morality of the consumer determine the morality of the industry... The local/non-GMO food movement was instrumental in chasing Monsanto away. Now let's end the subsidies, end the taxes, and just keep the state out of the way of the consumer and producer alike. Nobody can know what's best for the individual citizen better than that individual citizen.
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I love it when people try to find ways to force their lifestyles on others and tell them it's for their own good! How about it's my right to smoke and eat myself to death? Go be well-meaning Nazis elsewhere.
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I'm vegan. Taxation is theft.
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Under a Trump administration I don't see this ever happening lol If anything was going to happen we would take away their subsidies which is imo the best route.
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I'm really glad to see you tackling this even though it's a bit outside the bounds of strictly nutrition topics. As someone who isn't exactly poor but can't really afford to get very sick, taking care of my health nutritionally (and with exercise) is a top priority not just for my comfort but for my wallet!
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Why stop there. We could get our food directly from the gov. Gov loves us, let's give them complete control!
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It is all good until somebody important realizes he will lose money and then works magic on politicians and turn on the media hounds.
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not all sat fats are bad. blanket labelling of sat fats in general is misleading. coconut fat is the healthiest medium chain fatty acid in the world that boosts immunity, fights microorganisms, improves metabolism, fights obesity.
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If people cannot be free to make their own bad decisions without interference then they are not free to make decisions. Stop trying to run everyone's lives with government and stick to just convincing them based on the merits of just eating healthy.
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absolutely love your work, common sense is not very common these days , absolutely the best nutritionist on the planet, never let up the good work 😊
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You don't even have to tax, just eliminate subsidies on grain for factory farms (and ethanol while you are at it) and you directly increase the price of meat without having to pass a tax and you save the taxpayers money.
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Taxation is theft! Educate people. Don't try to control them or steal from them.
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A gallon of water is cheaper than a gallon of any other kind of beverage, but people still consume those more expensive beverages because the difference in cents and dollars is not enough to change consumption habits. Many are not price conscious, but subsidies for healthy foods are still a good idea for those who are cost conscious.
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Rather than tax unhealthy foods, it would be less controversial and better for the poor to subsidize all whole fruits, grains, vegetables, nuts, and legumes. Then there would be an additional incentive to consume healthy foods.
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The "sugar tax" that is gaining a lot of prominence is by a hair's breadth excluding completely raw fruit drinks. The modern government dogma of healthy eating is that sugar in all its forms including fruit drinks is bad, because they are again trying in their reductionism to break things down despite all their theories collapsing over and over against just eating raw, healthy, natural food. The IDEA that I would be taxed extra for buying fruit juice under the guise it was bad for my health, it's just far too close for comfort.
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Hi Dr Greger ! This might sound super weird but could i know what your skin care is ? You're glowing 24/7 haha ! You're a huge inspiration for me as a medical student and i'm looking forward to one day do my own researches and studies 🙏💪🙌📽
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My state nearly passed a law to restrict people from using food stamps to buy beans, red potatoes, nuts, or pasta sauce, because those are "unhealthy" foods. An amendment was passed to allow all dairy products, because this is Wisconsin, and we can't threaten the dairy industry. Bottom line, we cannot trust our government to figure out what's healthy.
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the more patients you have, the more money the healthcare sector make?!!!!
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