• SGforce@lemmy.ca
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          5 months ago

          Think he wanted a junkfood tax? Though that could also be thought of as a poor tax.

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            If it works like Pennsylvania’s soda tax and doesn’t apply to people paying with EBT that would be okay enough for me. Lord knows I could use some outside influence to stop buying junk food.

            Would be best to also subsidise the healthy foods to make them cheaper but no way in hell that will happen any red administration.

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            5 months ago

            yeah. I think an outright ban on nasty chemicals would be better probably. No need to tax shit homeless people depend on for survival.

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      Yeah the other thing I agree with him on is bringing in Joel Salatin’s approach to regenerative agriculture. This is all about building up soil health and soil ecosystems rather than conventional fertilizer and heavy tillage.

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        I don’t think a forced change like that is really necessary The only reason it really stopped in the first place is because corn is so subsidized by the government that it is cheaper and less work to just keep expanding land and planting more corn fields. Stop the outrageous subsidizing of corn and corn based products and it would make sense for farmers to rotate/sustain crop fields and diversify crops.

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      This “broken clock” is right a surprising amount of the time, just don’t focus on the occasional statement he makes that the corporate media really, really wants you to focus on, they’ve deployed the crackpot strategy on a guy who really just wants you to eat healthy and make your own choices about your health.