Dr. Mark Hyman
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The attorney general found out about it and then basically sued these companies.
They don't care.
It was the biggest, I think, settlement ever.
It was like $18 million, which for them is like nothing.
And they defeated the GMO labeling law.
There's just story after story after story like this.
But if you make a carrot chip,
and you fry it in oil and you sell it in a bag, you can probably make 10x the money, right?
So processing food of very cheap ingredients that are industrially produced at scale, that are funded by the government, I mean, is so cheap.
And that's why we get cheap food, but it's not cheap because the price we pay
At the checkout counter, it's not the true cost of the food.
Prince Charles, now King Charles, gave a speech about this called The Future of Food.
I think it was at George Washington or Georgetown University years ago, and he wrote about this.
What is true cost accounting?
And the Rockefeller Foundation put together a report a number of years ago that there were $3 in collateral damage for every dollar we spent on food.
$3.
So you spend a dollar on food, but the food industry is not covering those costs.
They're passing it on to the taxpayer and the citizens and the government and the environment.
So...
Chronic disease, the burden of that, who's paying for that?