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		shafyy on April 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions... Yes, meat and dairy are the new Big Oil. In fact, they spend a bigger relative portion of their income for lobyying than Big Oil: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02042021/meat-dairy-lobby...

specialist on April 9, 2021 [–]

I just watched The Poison Squad. The tortured history of banning poisons from food, aka the progressive era Pure Food movement. Big Food pioneered lobbying, alongside all the other robber barons.

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