Cures and Capitalisim

[The Grand Nudger]

It's more mis-education rather than outright lies. They'll tell you "eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day" and you think that's all the advice you need to stay healthy.

And I think that's the way the powers that be (in this case, both healthcare services and fast-food companies) want it. If you educate people on how to better take care of their bodies so they're significantly less likely to end up with cancer, heart disease, diabetes or obesity, the fast-food industry crashes catastrophically, and then in turn the healthcare services do as well, because people aren't needing doctors so often. That would have devastating impact on the economy and no government wants that.

I can believe it is in the best interests of both healthcare companies and a lot of food/agriculture companies to promote "treat the symptom and not the cause" approach to health. I would go that far with the conspiracy theory.

This farmer has to wear a protective suit so he doesn't get poisoned by the chemicals he is putting on the crops;

Plenty of people are going to buy that food that he can't touch for his own health, and then consume it.

They wouldn't be -poisonous- if they weren't poisons, they wouldn;t do the job.  "Those chemicals" have a known rate of decay, which is to say that they are designed (or simply do) break down after "x" amount opf time.  In the field, we call it the return entry interval. You have to put up a sign and no one is allowed in the field until the timeframe has elapsed - this all has to be rigorously documented and you will, on a long enough timescale, be audited by the EPA and/or USDA.  You have to wear PPE just to spray enough -baking soda- to combat mildew, but neither the baking soda nor "those chemicals" pose a risk to the end consumer of the product if properly applied. Even improperly applied....almost all of them are water soluble (so that we can actually -use- them in our sprayers) and a simple wash will deal with it. You cannot, by law, spray a field with a chemical whose rei exceeds it's projected harvest date..nor can you, obviously, go into a field which is still under rei restrictions to harvest it in the first place. Now some of us do this for a living, and we enjoy a simple pleasure that yall don't.....there aren't many farmers that wouldn't eat their own produce off their own vine without even wiping it down. It's a point of pride for us, if nothing else.

I'd worry more about commercial organics...which don't have -some- of "those chemicals" on them, but do have a higher rate of having things on them that actually are known to harm the end consumer.