This week on CounterSpin: For many, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is a clear case of environmental racism—the disproportionate infliction of environmental harms on communities of color, from the spraying of toxic pesticides to the siting of polluting factories. The government has a responsibility to address these harms—but do they do it, and if not, why not? These are some of the questions engaged by the Center for Public Integrity’s Environmental Justice, Denied series. We’ll speak with Center reporter Talia Buford.
Also on the show: The labeling of Genetically Modified food is a hard-fought policy battle, as Americans demand information about what they eat and and industry demands the ability to obscure that information. But recent evidence suggests we should also pay attention to the labeling of the experts media present on the question of GMOs. Carey Gillam is a longtime food and agriculture journalist, now research director at the group US Right to Know. We’ll talk with her about conflicts of interest in the coverage of our food supply.
And as usual we’ll take a look back at the week’s press, including Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump after Iowa, and corporate media’s selective interest in reparations.
SOURCE LINKS:
- Center for Public Integrity: Environmental Justice, Denied
- “Following an Email Trail: How a Public University Professor Collaborated on a Corporate PR Campaign,” by Carey Gillam (US Right to Know, 1/29/15)
Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
“One conclusion to draw from Obama’s Presidency
is how necessary the right proportion of flexibility
and resolve is for the job”
Because ObamaCare was written and created entirely by the medical industry, because of Obama’s corrupt “flexibility and resolve,” during Obama’s 8 years in office the medical industry will make an extra $1.5 trillion a year over what BernieCare would cost. And if paid actor Clinton wins the White House, the total corruption caused by ObamaCare for the 16 years would be $24 trillion.
My main objection to Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Food is the way it upsets the balance in nutrition by their striving to increase the protean and fat content which results in a reduction of the complex carbohydrates. The calories in natural whole grains for example are 10% protean, 10% fat and 80% complex
carbohydrates. And for a fact, all of the nutrition essential to good health is found only in the complex carbohydrates contained in food.
Problem is, because of fast food restaurants, junk food and all of the processed food industry, the average American diet is 50% fat which clogs up every internal organ in the body and is the root cause of 95% of illness in America.
Solution, stay out of fast food restaurants and put nothing in your grocery cart that is more than 20% fat.
For breakfast eat fresh fruit over oatmeal. For dinner eat lentil stew with natural brown rice and vegetables. Only two meals a day, no snacks and drink only water.