How the Corrupt Food System Serves Industry and Betrays Humanity

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The organizations entrusted to serve humanity have served industry instead, allowing it to dominate the food system with unnatural food products that cause serious health issues, chronic disease, anxiety and depression, suicidal thoughts in children, and death.
They have failed to protect sources of food from multiple known harms. They created and bolstered corrupt “professional” organizations and “expert dieticians” to promote unhealthy, unscientific, and dishonest dietary guidelines and “health” protocols. They have sought to silence independent professionals who question industry-approved narratives.
They stood by while industry created products that are sold as “food” but that 1) lack the nutrients and life-giving characteristics naturally found in real foods, 2) are contaminated with chemicals and toxins that cause great harm, and 3) promote addiction via brain chemistry hacks and corporate marketing power, targeting vulnerable populations including children and teens.

Food for humans and animals is provided by the Earth. These have come to be called “whole foods” or “unprocessed foods.” For generations, whole foods have been preserved by traditional techniques such as canning or pickling.
Food and drink products that are industrially manufactured are called ultra-processed foods (UPFs). They are ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat formulations containing food additives and little or no whole foods. Food additives are not normally consumed as food, but are nonetheless added to serve “a technological purpose” in the manufacture, processing, packaging, transport, or storage of UPFs.
UPFs, junk food, fake food, fast food, energy drinks, and diet drinks have led to devastating outcomes in physical and mental health.

Seed oils are industrially processed concoctions, often referred to as “vegetable oils.” They’re produced using a high degree of industrial processing.
Seed oils are high in linoleic acid (LA) and are therefore “prone to oxidation and promote inflammation in the body.” [source]
Replacing natural fats with manufactured “vegetable oils” was never proven to lower the risk of heart disease or death. In fact, it showed the opposite. And now we know seed oils cause chronic inflammation, diabetes, fatty liver, harm to brain and hypothalamus, dysregulated immunity, allergies, blood clots, autoimmune reactions, increased fat, obesity, depression, cardiovascular disorders, skin diseases, oxidative stress (which can lead to cellular damage, decreased energy and dysfunction). [source and source and source and source and source and source and source] Cooking seed oils at high temperatures creates toxins capable of damaging cells and DNA, thus causing mutations or cancer. [source and source]

The industrialized food system is characterized by toxic contamination, including phthalates, microplastics, heavy metals, glyphosate and other pesticides, synthetic dyes, and hundreds of additional chemicals including “forever chemicals” and other endocrine-disruptors.

Apeel is a chemical formulation that may be put on organics and cannot be washed off. It has mono- and diglycerides, which cause inflammation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hardening of arteries.

Industrial agriculture is at the root of many of humanity’s crises. Mechanization of agriculture has increased the use of poisons, and devastated the health of food and communities. Factory farms are continuing to get bigger and bigger.

Genetic modification is the alteration of an organism’s genome. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are often used by industrial agriculture to create “frankenfoods” that will survive the use of toxic pesticides that devastate human health, soils, and biodiversity.

The industrialized food system has these problems: 1) A food system and “regulatory” environment that is corrupted, betraying humanity and planet. 2) A system dominated by fake and highly processed foods that harm people and the planet. 3) Poisons in food, water and packaging that make people chronically sick in body and mind. 4) Factory farms characterized by unsustainable practices, animal cruelty, monoculture and pesticide use that have resulted in the devastation of soil, waterways, pollinators and ecosystems, causing sickness in people, animals and the environment.
Solutions include: 1) Reclaiming food sovereignty, de-centralizing systems. 2) Developing localized food networks. 3) Healing soil. 4) Supporting regenerative farming. 5) Rewilding dead, dying, and imbalanced spaces.

How the Corrupt Food System Serves Industry and Betrays Humanity — and How to Reclaim Our Power