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Vitor Pamplona
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I consider the obesity epidemic a failure of free markets to offer healthy food without government oversight and a failure of individual freedom to choose better foods for themselves.

Yes, I know it's not completely free market and choosing healthy is not possible sometimes, but the point stands. Even with all gov interventions we have had, the market should have solved this.

Now RFK Jr is literally pitching more regulation to make America healthy again.
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Annie☕ · 80w
Are you surprised? 🧐
Andreas Griffin · 80w
The market provides what people want, not what is necessarily good for them.
mrclownworld · 80w
The disrupted (not free) market for money distorted the economy in the last century to drive consumers to higher time preference decision making with food. Even according to the orthodox sources, America’s junk food problem began in the Great Depression when people were desperate to up their calor...
Guy Van Sanden · 80w
It's a government failure where they heavily regulate the medical sector bit doctors are spokespeople for big pharma who live by keeping people sick (healthy enough not to die). Doctors don't talk about food as medicine enough even though books like that by Dr Price clearly prove that our diet is th...
Papa Figos · 80w
I put the responsibility squarely on the people who literally couldn't keep their mouth shut. Sure, addictive food exists and is engineered to be so, but no one is pointing a gun to their heads and forcing them to be in a caloric surplus for months on end. Only by reclaiming their personal power c...
Deleted Account · 80w
Repeating …. How #USA got here WWII sent off boys from the farm. Lucky men came home Many were heartbroken Fractured souls & altered minds Attempted to claim their peace Of the American dream Honoring their fallen friends & respect Back to school they went Educated now birthed the middle cl...
Brunswick · 80w
The failure is of the non-free-market legal system preventing tort against pollution, poisoning and protecting monied interests. The mechanism under which poisons and low grade calories are added to the food supply is through government subsidized research institutions whoring themselves to big phar...
Judge Hardcase · 80w
I think you're understating "not completely free market" a little more than you might realize. Calorie prices are overwhelmingly distorted by what the government chooses to subsidize. I don't know what RFK Jr's plans are; but, if I were in charge of tackling the obesity epidemic, one of the first ...
PaddleManJoe · 80w
Soybeans are a subsidized crop. No consumers asked for Soybeans, yet food producers are always finding ways to put Soybeans into our food because that shit is so overproduced and therefore dirt cheap.
Lameplatos · 80w
I think it’s a combination of different issues: Governments have failed because they don't even promote healthier options. There are many myths surrounding nutrition, such as the belief that refined vegetable oils are better than butter or that low-fat diets are preferable. People often lack inter...
Satosha · 80w
I thought RFK is for deregulation ! ..
m4dire0701 · 80w
No. We don't have anything resembling a free market of food. What we have is cartelized mafia industry The Pyramid of Power: Chapter 8 – Food as a Weapon https://odysee.com/@theconsciousresistance:7/POP8:0?r=93p2jaN5TFVPqhgtGxpDU19ttLTeq9Jj
Galetaire · 80w
In Australia most people is fit. It's a culture thing, the market delivers what people wants. Probably there is market corruption. But ultimately I think people could change it.
szarka · 80w
No. No. A thousand times no. It's a result of government intervention! Ag markets are subject to *massive* intervention in the US, both on the supply side and the demand side!
Oshtor · 80w
That's a problem with fiat food. People will buy cheaper rather than healthier like margarine instead of butter believing in such illusion that they will save money and be heathier. Normies will think cheaper version is either the same or healthier and it's hard to change that, because taxes doesn't...
Dawn · 80w
If you get rid of the speed limit, people will drive at a speed that feels comfortable for the weather conditions & their abilities. Post 75 & they're incentivized to drive as close to 75 as possible. Most food safety rules have incentivized producers to follow the worst practices possible without l...
Gareth Kitchen · 80w
lol. It's almost as if current policy is geared for profit and growth of the health care sector.
Danie · 80w
The biggest worry is if government had to choose between farmers producing wholesome food vs the ultra-processed industry, the choice would fall with industry. It is not healthy and a lot of health issues today are caused by going ever more ultra-processed (with the added "vitamins" of course).
EZ · 80w
In a free market you would have gotten increasingly healthier foods cheaper. What we're getting now is shittier food that's getting increasingly more expensive. Consumer is cornered and confused, and free and organic markets just can't compete in centrally rigged markets at the same scale.
Ex_impius · 80w
He also getting rid of regulations for natural food. Whats your point? If he guts 5 regulations by making 1 whats the problem? He literally said he was gonna remove red tape on farmers and locally grow food…
The real prophet Muhhammed who invented islam aka False Idol #1 · 80w
"Choosing healthy is not possible" ? Since when? When will people take responsibility for their own health?