In 2011, Cargill, the biggest food conglomerate if you count agricultural commodities, sold contaminated poultry which killed 4 people and caused three miscarriages. Foster Farms had to close their plant when their salmonella infected chicken sickened over 600 people; they blamed this on cockroaches and not the shit-water. In 2000, around 16 million pounds of Turkey processed by Cargill's Texas plant was recalled because of Listeria, which caused 7 still births and 29 illnesses. Cargill's processing plants put guts in their burgers, as well as bleach to clean the feces in the guts, plus meat which falls on factory floors, which gets treated with ammonia. This has given a three-year-old E. coli-poisoning, killing her, and paralyzed a women from the waste down.
Every year in America, 440 million tons of animal waste is dumped in manure lagoons and sprayed in fields despite clear evidence of environmental harm and damage to human health.
High-fructose corn syrup - High-fructose corn syrup became a thing in the 70s. The CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, Dwayne Andreas, convinced Reagan to sign laws making sugar, which had been cheap and plentiful, expensive to import, allowing the corn industry to corner the market.
America is dependent on corn, half of all of which is produced goes into ethanol; the other feeding livestock. Corn gets more subsidiaries from the US government than any other crop. A byproduct of this is that High-fructose corn syrup is found in most, if not all, junk food products, which caused diabetes and other health issues to skyrocket; these effects were blamed on sugar.
Toxic corn fertilizer constantly washes off, polluting America's rivers, lakes and coastlines; growing corn is a major contributor to air pollution, which kills over 4,000 and causes $39B in health problems annually.
Seed oils - Cotton-seed-oil was used in factories for lubricating machines and is highly toxic, causing infertility, pregnancy problems, liver damage, respiratory problems and loss of apatite. In the 1910s, Proctor & Gamble hydrogenated it to make it a relatively safe trans-fat, sold under the name Crisco as shortening, a lard alternative. They started using this same hydrogenation process on other types of seeds to create what is now called 'vegetable' oil, even though it isn't made from vegetables.
Polyunsaturated fat found in seed oils turns into a varnish-like-substance in the intestines; this makes people twice as likely to die from cancer and is also linked to Alzheimer and heart disease—obesity has skyrocketed 1 for 1 with the use of 'vegetable' oil since the 1960s.
After WWII, Proctor & Gamble stopped using cotton-seed-oil in exchange for a cheaper alternative: leftover rancid soybean oil from animal feed production.
In 1949 Procter & Gamble bribed the American Heart Association (AHA) $1.5M, ($19M today) under the guise of a national radio competition they sponsored; in exchange AHA recommended polyunsaturated fats, ignoring their health risks. Later in 1961, the AHA released a study claiming that animal fats raise cholesterol, causing heart attacks, again recommending 'vegetable' oil as an alternative—even though in 1990, a Dutch study found that trans-fats raise your cholesterol even more than animal fats.
The FDA came down on them but nothing changed. Whenever Crisco or a bottle of vegetable oil says 0 trans-fats, it actually means only 0.5 per table spoon. 2% of fat consumed being trans-fat causes a 23% increase in heart disease, so do the math.
Palm oil - Palm oil is used in junk food, shampoo and cosmetics. 85% of its production comes from, on vast Indonesian and Malaysian deforested plantations which were formerly habitats for Orangutans and other endangered species, where abduction victims are forced to work slave labor.
Unilever - Unilever make Dove soap, Lipton ice tea, Axe body spray, the Clear Blue pregnancy test, and also owned Kalvin Klein for a while.
Unilever allegedly had countless meetings where the company's top execs discussed the possibility of violence in Kenya in relation to its election. On a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya, gangs of men with machetes, some of whom were reportedly Uilever employees, threatened their co-workers to vote favorably for the company. When the election results didn't go their way, these gangs killed 11 Unilever workers. 15 years later, Uilever paid an undisclosed sum to some of the workers effected. In 2023 it came out that dozens of women working for Unilever had been sexually abused at their plantations.
Baby Food - Toxic heavy metals have been found in 95% of baby foods sold in America, such as lead, arsenic and mercury. The FDA knowingly allows this and sets the limits, even allowing 4 times more arsenic in baby products to match levels at Walmart.
Pet Food - Mars, the company which makes the candy bars, as well as Uncle Ben's Rice, also make pet food. The pet food in question consists of diseased zoo animals, slaughter house scraps (feathers, beaks, tumors, hyde) sometimes road-kill and even other euthanized pets. Conveniently, Mars also has a monopoly on vet offices (BluePearl) and vet supply companies for when pets get sick from the food they produce. Mars also employs kids as young as 5 in Ghana to harvest their coca beans with machetes.
GMOs and Pesticides
A GMO is any organism genetically engineered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating or natural recombination.
Monsanto - Monsanto has patents on their GMO seeds, meaning it's illegal for farmers to replant them, allowing Monsanto's seeds to account for 80% of the USA’s total corn acreage. “Seeds are often designed to terminate—or, to fail to germinate—after one harvest, forcing farmers to purchase new seeds each season. Consolidated corporations also gain control over producers through seed and chemical product pairings that push farmers into a “pesticide treadmill,” in which they are dependent on both a corporation’s evolving seeds and chemical inputs to produce a healthy crop This combined seed and chemical regime also increases farmers’ costs of production, with USDA data showing that the per-acre cost of soybean and corn seed spiked dramatically between 1995 and 2014, by 351 percent and 321 percent, respectively.” - Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System (2019)
In the 1980s, Monsanto created glyphosate, marketed as Roundup, an extremely potent herbicide, only safe to use on GMO seeds, becoming the most widely used herbicide. It has been linked to a number of cases of cancer and resulted in multiple billion dollar settlements against the company. The Seralini study, originally published in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, reported that rats studied for 2 years while being exposed to Monsanto’s Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize died 2–3 times more than rats not eating GMO corn; the study also claimed female rats developed tumors more often than the rats fed non-GMO corn. After his study was retracted and his name tarnished, Professor Seralini won a defamation lawsuit against a magazine that called the research conducted by him and his team a “scientific fraud”.
Background on Monsanto: In the 1920s, Monsanto became the soul producer polychlorinated biphenyl, (PCB) which is a carcinogen and pollutant used in power transformers and capacitors. Internal documents leaked in 2002 show that Monsanto was aware of the toxicity of PCBs more than a decade before their eventual ban by Congress in 1979. Monsanto was a large contributor to the Manhattan Project. They were instrumental in the development of the polonium-based initiators used in the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Monsanto also produced Agent Orange, used by the US to defoliate jungles and destroy North Vietnamese crops During the Vietnam War; it ended up permanently contaminating concentrated areas, causing 3 million people to suffer health defects and half a million Vietnamese children to be born with deformities.
USDA - Jonathan Lundgren, an entomologist working for the US Department of Agriculture, (USDA) filed a whistler complaint against his employer for suppressing his research which found that certain pesticides may be affecting bee and butterfly populations. The USDA sought to dismiss Lundgren’s complaint as “frivolous” and based on “speculative and unsupported” allegations, however, the court’s ruled in favor of Lundgren. Lundgren originally filed an internal complaint in September 2014, accusing the USDA of retaliating against him because of his research; the complaint was dismissed by the USDA and Lundgren was suspended in October of that year. He was suspended for three days after USDA investigators found emails among his research staff which included indecent jokes. On October 28, 2015, Lundgren filed a complaint with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board after his supervisors allegedly began to: “impede or deter his research and resultant publications.” Lundgren’s complaint alleged that his supervisors suspended him in retaliation for his research on neonicotinoid pesticides and his calls for an investigation of both the USDA and the Environmental Protection Agency.
According to the the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the organization representing Lundgren, at least 10 USDA scientists were investigated or faced other consequences arising from research that called into question the safety of certain agricultural chemicals.
In late December 2016, researchers with France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) confirmed that nearly half of studies on genetically modified crops had conflicts of interest; their study also concluded that such GM studies had an increased likelihood of drawing conclusions which favored genetically modified or engineered foods. In these cases the conflict was typically related to someone involved with the study also working as an employee of a GM company or having received funds directly from the company.
FDA - Although the FDA has downplayed any efforts to label GM foods as potentially hazardous, previously unreleased FDA documents show the agency was aware of possible risks to humans as far back as 1991. The documents were released through a lawsuit filed by Steven Druker, a public interest attorney and executive director of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity (ABI). Druker obtained 44,000 pages of messages, memos, and reports from the FDA, releasing them in his book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth. One such document, the FDA’s 1992 Statement of Policy: Foods Derived From New Plant Varieties, stated the agency was “not aware of any information” showing that GMOs differ “in any meaningful way” from other food, despite memos showing that researchers did have questions about the safety of GE foods. One FDA compliance officer wrote that the agency: “was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole… [by] trying to force an ultimate conclusion that there is no difference between foods modified by genetic engineering and foods modified by traditional breeding practices.''
Nestlé - Nestlé, probably one of the most evil parasite-cabals in history is also the largest food company in the world. In the 70s, they ran a campaign in which they bribed doctors and medical journals to promote the idea that their baby formula, which was originally meant for women unable to breastfeed, was actually healthier than breast milk, causing generations of babies to under-develop from a lack of proper nutrition. If a mother stops breastfeeding, even for a few days, their milk supply drops, creating a dependency on the product; plus, up until recently, baby bottles contained the xenoestrogen, BPA, which lowers testosterone. Even though today, not breastfeeding or using baby-formula alone is recommended against, there are still reports of Nestlé paying doctors to promote their products, giving out free samples and advertising in hospitals. In Africa this causes babies to die because the formula is mixed with dirty water, contributing to 66.000 infant deaths in 1981 alone.
In the early days they would dress random women as nurses and send them into African communities to shill their baby formula.
Nestlé's cocoa is harvested by un-paid child slaves, mainly from the Ivory-Coast, and gets used for nearly all of their products, except for the Kit-Kat, which has a fair trade label on it. This was an intentional move to create the illusion that the same applies for the rest of their chocolate.
In 2001, Nestlé signed the US Government broker-backed Harkin-Engel Protocol, promising to stop sourcing from child labor. Since then, they've missed four consecutively breached deadlines; there were more children working in cocoa than when the agreement was signed.
In 2012, Nestlé got caught buying tanks full of regular tap water for around 10 dollars, selling it for $50K as falsely advertised natural-spring water.
In 2013 they got caught diverting clean drinking water from towns in Pakistan, packaging it in their factories, then selling it back to those who could afford in the communities they'd just stolen from; everyone else was left with dirty water.
In 2005, Nestlés chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that declaring water to be a be a human right 'is an extreme solution.'
Nestlé also make Purina dog food, Hagendadz ice cream, Sanpallegrino sparkling water, hot pockets, Nescafe, After Eight chocolates and countless others; they also own 20% of L'oréal.
Food exploitation
Children, sometime even babies, get trafficked from Mali to the Ivory Coast and forced to harvest cocoa for no money. They get whipped and put in solitary confinement. When they try to escape, they get forced to drink urine, or have their feet cut open with pepper rubbed in the wounds. The Cocoa in question gets used by companies like Hershies, Mars and the largest food conglomerates, Nestlé and Cargill.
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