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The reason why we have this problem to begin with is because the United States has near totalitarian regulations that are put in place by government to protect big AG companies. There are less than 8 companies that account for 99% of all meat and animal products consumed in the United States. Food production is centralized to such an extent that any logistical issues immediately cause a price reaction.>tfw you've been buying the organic hormone free antibiotic free pasture raised eggs for the last ten years, not due to ethical concerns but purely because you don't trust the FDA or USDA to do anything and want to minimize the risk of consuming poison, and the price has stayed exactly the same because they were already $5-6 and Biden didn't mass genocide the healthy chickens for some reason
The USDA and FDA exist solely to create barriers of entry for anyone looking to compete against these massive conglomerates. If you thought this was bad, as a double fuck-you these AG conglomerates and meatpackers are directly responsible for mass migration into the country and lobby for open border policies. They are the largest employers of illegals and use them as a source of cheap labor, refusing to pay American citizens. It's estimated that 50% to 90% of the meatpacking work force is illegals.
Everytime you hear about an E. coli outbreak or Salmonella outbreak or recall or something, this is happening at the proecssing level. The illegals they employ don't practice any hygiene, don't wash their hands, and are in constant close quarters. This is also why tubercolusis and diseases that haven't been around for decades are coming back. It's all downstream of this.
The influence that the Big AG sector has on government outweighs that of any special interest group or foreign lobby. They have what AIPAC could only ever dream about.
And no one cares. This flies completely under the radar of the average American. When prices are high it's "inflation" or "Biden" or "Trump" or whatever the fuck is politically relevant at the time. The blame never falls on those directly responsible. The executives of these companies make money hand over fist with profits steadily increasing year over year as they continue to destroy the country.
The products they do produce are poison to the body. Factory farming and CAFO operations produce adrenalized, chemical pumped soy-fed meat that only serves to make the body sick and weak. People will critize shit like the Impossible Whopper without realizing that eating most meat is just eating soy by proxy.
Soy, the bulk of which is for animal feed is fully subsidized by the government and USDA. Soy monoculture farming is an environmental disaster and is permanently destroying layers of topsoil and accelerating soil erosion that would normally take centuries. In less than 10 years there will not be enough arable land in the United States to support it's population and status as a net agricultural exporter. This may sound like something a global warming alarmist would say but it's a real danger. And not one of these issues is discussed FUCKING EVER. Instead it's always """Muh global warming""" or other nonsense virtue signalling hysteria.
The FDA and USDA need to be completely abolished. Only when food production can be distributed like every other country on earth will these issues be fixed. Read "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal" by Joe Saladin.
). Is there much I can do in the safety and comfort of my living room? I am a short foid with no understanding of the muscle men's ways. Before my injury my workouts just consisted of a lot of biking and running, so I don't understand a lot of the terminology in this thread. I've asked my boyfriend but he works long days so he isn't really able to help between work and sleep outside of translating pounds to kilograms and showing me what a deadlift is. I think I could get him to show me any workouts you guys mention, he was a big gym nut before he moved in with me and started working. Thanks in advance.