Politics Post your predictions for the next 4 years of Trump's 2nd tenure as President

Yeah... this isn't a thing anybody on the left is doing...

 

It's perfectly safe to drink. Just ask them...

 

@crandc, As a scientist/biologist? would you mind sharing what you think about what ingredients good and bad that are in our food. Appreciate your opinion. Gracias

 

Corn syrup is one of the worst ingredients we have in food other than transfats, artificial flavors, dyes and salt. The amount of salt and sugar in processed foods is really bad for health.

 

Hard in a nutshell. We tend to think of "natural" as good but plenty of "natural" things are harmful.

It's best to eat real food. Minimally processed, cooked is fine but avoid highly processed meats, and yes, refined sugars. Eat beans, fish, poultry rather than protein drinks. Eat beets, not beet pills. Whole grains rather than fortified. OTOH fortified milk, which is standard, is fine if you can tolerate lactose. No I don't always practice. I bake.

Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters, summed it up as: eat food, mostly plants, in moderation.
He added if your grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food you probably shouldn't eat it. My grandmother didn't eat bok choy but she would recognize it, probably ask in Yiddish, so, what kind of cabbage is that? Because although it is unfamiliar her nose would have told her cabbage.

Finally, if you really like Ben and Jerry's or chocolate cheesecake, enjoy it on special occasions. Don't deprive yourself to the point of misery. Food should be joyful.

 

Good lord. You might be on to something. Let's poison ourselves and our children so corn/oats can be how many cents less per pound? Even if you omit the cost in terms of sheer health, do you think we're close to breaking even in terms of the cost of health care? We can spend billions on war and other crap, we can grow organic food at no extra cost to the consumer. Trump also appointed a regenerative farming expert to the department of agriculture.

 

That was a lot of typing for no reason at all. Great job.

 

I was listening to Kilmeade a bit on the way to work today.

He and his guest seemed anti-RFK Jr., but, in the end, Kilmeade had to leave on a hopeful note for Trump, saying that we have a country where so many people aren't healthy because it's what's in the cheaper foods they're forced to eat, and that RFK will regulate that and we'll get healthier food out there and less healthy food off the shelves.

And I thought "You guys just announced a department to slice a third of federal spending and have been all about deregulating things, including making sure we have clean drinking water, but you're going to tout the anti-vax king as being the great regulator of nutrition, in the midst of what stands to be skyrocketing inflation and a dwindling supply of foreign product."

These people just say anything and hope the majority of the people turn off their brains and don't catch them.

 

I have foreseen it.

 

Ahhh yes. The party of less government

 

Ending the corn subsidy would end corn syrup