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Trump is already making good on his campaign promises
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From
04/12/2016 17:07:08
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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>>I never said anything negative about avoiding GMO food, did I?

No, but I detected a narrative I was missing. Once he's back in Hawaii it ought to be easy for Victor to avoid GMO since there's lots of ocean and local produce.

>>As a matter of fact, I try to avoid all highly processed foods.

You'll live longer. On the subject of processed unhealthy food: it's been an anti-conservative strategy for some time to try to damage the bottom line or engineer bannings of alternative media and conservative voices. Sites funded by google ads are particularly vulnerable to orchestrated campaigns of complaint to attack the advertising lifeblood. As an example, recently Kellogg announced that it wants to prevent its ads appearing on Breitbart because its values don't match Kellogg's values.

Previously this Kellogg announcement would be cause for celebration by the determined groups whose complaints are designed to cause exactly this, while the company would bask in the echo chamber adulation. However, Breitbart hit back with a dumpkelloggs hashtag that trended #1 on Twitter while Kellogg social media was bombarded with comments, mostly negative. It didn't help that Kellogg almost simultaneously was accused of benefiting from child labor in the 3rd world or of sexism in the workplace. A video of somebody urinating on a Kellogg cereal conveyor belt resurfaced ("who peed in the cornflakes? This guy) while Kellogg products were lambasted for being unhealthy processed trash. Then Kellogg won the prime award for misrepresented food Downunder, with a processed offering "for ironmen" that is 25% sugar.

Point is that this strategy of targeting opponents for boycott is no longer a one-way street: conservative groups now have shown that they too can use product boycott as a defensive weapon. Independent commentators now observe that cornflakes ought to be apolitical (what a surprise.)

Seems that Kellogg's posturing for the echo chamber has precipitated focus on the health value of its heavily processed food. Academics now are piling on with statistics about sugar and health. I think Kellogg may rue the day that it politicized the breakfast table and needs to get its head around healthier offerings if it hasn't already- especially since it's Trump's ferals/deplorables who are most likely to eat Froot Loops, not the echo chamber intelligentsia with their rolled oats and kofu.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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