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schainkstoday at 6:02 PM1 replyview on HN

A few things were made clear from this Last Week Tonight episode related to food: https://youtu.be/Za45bT41sXg

- Lobbying and specialist groups can and do hamstringing America's ability to make better, safer food at scale. This isn't about big vs small producers. It's a regulatory resourcing problem.

- The FDA / USDA split is something those groups _love_ to take advantage of to further hamstring America's food supply.

The conclusion I've come to is that this gives profit-driven-corporations or foreign adversaries an excellent way to harm America's food chain through these specialist groups.

Fixing the FDA/USDA split is probably a good idea, but it will take a political earthquake to do so, and I'm absolutely willing to vote for people who pledge to make my food both safer and more delicious.


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hydrogen7800today at 6:40 PM

I think the 2 Trump administrations have shown that (multiple) political earthquakes are very possible.