Trump’s idea, along with RFK, Jr., to Make America Healthy Again is a great idea. Indeed, there is much in our supply chains that can use a makeover, with RFK, Jr. in particular drawing a comparison between the United States and Europe regarding certain questionable additives to our food.
But are these additives some grand conspiracy to make us unhealthy? And are these items really that dangerous? I would submit that, by and large, this is not the case.[1]
First, allow me to challenge a myth… that “natural” and “organic” is better. Many years ago, my German mother and I drank from the source of a stream that fed the Uracher waterfall in southern Germany. We were sick and bed-ridden for three days after. If you directly drink from what appears to be a clean, fast running mountain stream in the Rocky Mountains, you will likely pick up giardia, a protozoa that comes from deer feces… i.e. “natural.” Contaminated food and water, all “natural” and “organic” at first blush, has been the bane of armies throughout history. In many cases, more Soldiers died from disease, often from contaminated water, than from combat.
We now see a lot of videos online about various foods, because of the additives, being dangerous to consume. Moreover, many of these videos come with the claim that we are being purposely poisoned to keep us unhealthy. If we took all of these claims seriously, we couldn’t eat or drink at all.
RFK, Jr. tells us that we have something like 50+ dangerous additives to our foods that the European Union has banned. The implication here is that socialist Europe does a better job protecting us than American regulators. But across the Atlantic, a European-based group has been fighting their own regulators for “pure” food. Indeed, a recent article by this group stated that the EU has allowed 388 food additives that are at best “controversial,” and at worst make Europeans sicker with “heart problems, cancer and diabetes.”[2] A quick view of this group’s homepage would make you think that they are in contact with RFK, Jr. regarding the United States.[3]
So why does the EU ban some additives out of the U.S., but allow hundreds of questionable items in their own products? I would suggest that this has more to do with monopoly protectionism than it does with food safety and health. What is often forgotten today is that the “pure food” movement is over 130 years old in the United States. It started initially to combat false labelling, but quickly morphed to where the big food companies used the new regulations coming out of the Progressive (code talking for “socialist”) Era as a means to shut down competition.
Regarding the “conspiracy” that this all meant to make us sicker by design, the claimants to this are missing one key fact: do the children and grandchildren of the people who create these “dangerous” foods consume these same items? I suspect that they do, and if so, then those producing the products are either ignorant of the facts, or are the most wicked of people, willing to poison their own offspring for money. Of course, the latter is possible… after all, how many today kill their own preborn children for the sake of money, or even worse, convenience?
Rather than conspiracy, what we all need to remember is that life is not perfection… it is about risk management. Not all corporations are solely about illicit money, willing to slowly kill their customers for the sake of a quick buck. To constantly attack corporations as bad, and needing more regulations, is another branch of the socialist mindset.
Many years ago, an off-color comedian named London Lee released a routine in which he said, “I kept reading about how everything was so bad for me that I had to cut out reading.”[4] He performed this routine in 1968… over 55 years ago.
Instead of demanding more regulations on companies, people need to take charge of their own lives, do their own research, and start purchasing less pre-processed foods and doing the processing at home themselves. Of course, this will necessitate certain life-changes, such as moving away from the dual-income household, with husbands and wives pursuing a better division of labor and specialization as in the old days.
Oh, the horror, cry the feminists of both genders.
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- Naturally, this article is for information purposes only, and should not be taken as professional advice. Seek properly licensed professionals for nutritional guidance. ↑
- https://www.foodwatch.org/en/campaigns/additives ↑
- https://www.foodwatch.org/en/foodwatch-international ↑
- This was on his album The Rich Kid. My quote is from memory, but is accurate in substance. By way of disclosure, Lee’s routines were off-color, but tame compared to today’s environment. ↑