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It's possible that the RFK thing is driving some urgency, but the timeline is broadly in line with their stated goals from their 2016 to 2025 strategic plan. Th
by icegreentea2 2y ago
It's possible that the RFK thing is driving some urgency, but the timeline is broadly in line with their stated goals from their 2016 to 2025 strategic plan. They started this whole process with public consultation in 2017, and released the proposed plan back in 2022.
- brookst 2y agoAgreed. If this was some “pandering to the new boss” thing they would have fast tracked approvals for eating roadkill.
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- robomartin 2y agoA change in urgency is good. The issues with our food have been known for quite some time. Given the carnage and damage to health at a massive scale, taking seven years to start acting is irresponsible. This isn't new knowledge at all. An airplane crashes and it becomes top news for days. Five thousand children and a million people per year are diagnosed with a diet-induced disease with horrible consequences and the media pays no attention to the issue at all. The death and destruction caused by the global metabolic disease pandemic should make everyone take pause: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(23)00039-6.pdf https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(23)00039... For context, COVID is estimated to have killed approximately 7 million people world-wide. Metabolic disease is killing over TEN MILLION every year and has been killing over 8 million per year for the last 20 years. And I am just quoting data from the Cell Metabolism Journal publication, which only covers 20 years. The destruction goes back decades beyond that. In other words, this has been a real "clear and present danger" case for decades. This is precisely why these agencies need to be shake-up to the core. What have they been doing for the last 20 or 30 years?