14/08/2026
Toxic chemicals are on our plants, are in our food chain and are in our soil. Recently Bayer agreed to pay out $7.5 billion to settle weedkiller cancer cases against them for not telling people Roundup potentially causes cancer, crucially they are not admitting liability or that Roundup causes cancer.
On one hand we have an industry that manufacturers calorie rich fake food, that is designed to be highly addictive.
These ultra processed products make us sick. Then you have an industry that creates drugs that help manage the symptoms of the disease this artificial food creates. It would seem like the perfect business model, make people sick, profit off that, then profit again from treating the sickness.
There, is a theory that the large food corporations, large agribusiness and the pharma industry are in cahoots, I would surmise that this is not too far from the actual truth. This intersection is characterized by shared financial interests, joint lobbying efforts, and, in some cases, overlapping ownership between food companies, nutrition groups, and
pharmaceutical firms. It is also worth noting that Bayer have a very significant health care division.
Today our bodies must contend with toxic chemicals that have been sprayed on our food, and toxic chemicals being added to our processed food, we are sick and by all accounts getting sicker.
There may be one simple solution, and it goes back to Michael Pollan's maxim "eat food, not too much, mainly plants". Eat fresh food, grown without toxic chemicals. Eat more home cooked food. Eat ingredients you know and recognise (Or as one person said, ingredients your grandmother would recognise). If we do this most of the time or at least some of the time and put our money into our food, then we will have to pay out much less to the Pharma's of the world.
With your support we are changing the food system, so thank you.
Kenneth
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