The dynamics of the largest industry in the country is destroying human capital. The processed food industry was created by the cigarette industry…As a political campaigner I found myself sitting across the desk from the two biggest contributors; the food industry, and the pharma industry which spends five times more on DC than the oil industry…After discovering the danger of cigarettes in the 80’s the cigarette companies used their cash piles to buy food companies and shifted their scientists, who figured out how to make cigarettes addictive, to focus on food, and changed the food pyramid to make carbs and sugars the foundation!

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