
Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 2: A Frightening Combo of Money, Food and Scale
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Rise in Obesity in the United States
Obesity seems to be a partially class based issue. After riots in 19 68, in the wake of the martin luther king junior assassination, president nixon began programmes that gave subsidies, a federal funds, to fast food franchises. The administration asserted that black owned businesses serving fast food would help to cure urban unrest by promoting an entre pernureal spirit in poor communities. It did make a select group of black ontrponurs wealthy but it was mostly a boon to fast food giants searching for new market. Demographicsthere's nothing that differentiates the maman pops from the big boys in terms of who gets the money,. Well, their ability to lobby congress
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