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How Big Pharma and Food Ads Control Your Health


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60% of mainstream media funding comes from pharmaceutical companies. So of course, we're seeing tons of ads that sort of create this insidious culture in our country that, like, medications are the answer for all health problems. And medications can be very valuable, but what that does is it kind of, like, subverts our attention away from more, like, natural mechanism of healing towards pharmaceuticals.

That's not legal in most other countries in the world. The spend that goes towards ad on a children's network like Nickelodeon is from ultra-processed foods. That's not allowed virtually anywhere else in the world. We have federal agencies in the U.S., like the FDA, where 75% of their budget is coming from the pharmaceutical industry.

Not to mention, there's dozens and dozens of chemicals allowed on our food and in our food in the U.S. that are just straight-up banned in the EU.