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well, it's linked to alot of things--industrial food production, the subsidy system, the ways in which industrial food is marketed both directly (adverts) and indirectly (sold to, say, public schools)---and ignorance about the consequences of industrial food and diet/nutrition in general. other stuff too---but of these two, you could say that the lack of adequate information about industrial food is a matter of both the educational and health care system. i think more about the french system than any other tho---because basic health care is free across the board, it makes sense for the state to be proactive about nutrition information (among other things) in order to try to influence folk to live more healthy lifestyles in the longer run as a cost-control move. so there's alot of information available about it. i've lived in france more than any other country outside the us so it's my alternate reference point.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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