The Daily Blog Open Mic – 16th April 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Debatable, but often the case.
‘If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.’ – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894.
Interesting article- General Mills, which owns brands like Yoplait and Old El Paso, has been caught funding ‘fat advocacy’ anti-health ads and subverting medical science and doctors in the US.
They operate over here too. Would be interesting to see just what (and which politicians) they’re funding.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243989381/how-big-food-co-opted-the-anti-diet-movement-for-profit
I remember a very convincing tv item on how big yoghurt manufacturers stood out against efforts to reduce quite high sugar content in their healthy food which took the shine off the reputation being put forward for yoghurt.