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teejlast Wednesday at 6:28 PM1 replyview on HN

The food pyramid was published by the department of agriculture, it’s always been propaganda.


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8bitsrulelast Thursday at 12:59 AM

Thanks to the dedicated work of Edward Bernays... nephew of Sigmund Freud ... and the Creel Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...

When Lucky Strike needed more women to smoke cigarettes in the late 1920s, it turned to Bernays.