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uh....so therefore regulation is unnecessary? because regulation does not automatically change the way individuals operate, the choices that they make? what kind of argument is that?
there's a deep problem with the american industrial food system as a whole and its subordination of human nutritional needs to profit imperatives, it's centralization of control/ownership, it's emphasis on standardization (monocropping, massive chemical dependencies to compensate for that), it's willingness to use corn-derivative substances that are only rational in a context where subsidies promote the irrational overproduction of corn no. 2....macdo is a powerful institution within the industrial food system; it is a massive buyer....fast food nation outlines the supply system pretty well. happy meals are basically shitty processed foods marketed to kids. personally, i think they're a health problem not only in themselves, but also because they're marketed at kids. i have no problem with regulating them out of existence.
there's more a problem with the lack of regulation, really. it's the lack of regulation that enables your circular non-argument to function. what's bizarre is that you seem to imagine it an argument against regulation.
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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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