Talk:Food & Drink Industry

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WIP: Agribusiness, Food Industry, Sugar Industry, Food Supply Chain, Covid: The Sickness in Our Food Supply. After having declined to use the Defense Production Act to boost the production of badly needed coronavirus test kits, he now declared meat a “scarce and critical material essential to the national defense.” The pandemic is, willy-nilly, making the case for deindustrializing and decentralizing the American food system. It’s long been understood that an industrial food system built upon a foundation of commodity crops like corn and soybeans leads to a diet dominated by meat and highly processed food. Unfortunately, a diet dominated by such foods predisposes us to obesity and chronic diseases such as hypertension and type-2 diabetes. Why these particular conditions should worsen Covid-19 infections might be explained by the fact that all three are symptoms of chronic inflammation, which is a disorder of the body’s immune system. One way that Covid-19 kills is by sending the victim’s immune system into hyperdrive, igniting a “cytokine storm” that eventually destroys the lungs and other organs. The food system we have is not the result of the free market - our food system is the product of agricultural and antitrust policies — political choices—that, as has suddenly become plain, stand in urgent need of reform.https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/ (archived)