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How Gutting the CFPB Will Hurt Rural America — Food & Power Rural Americans struggle with medical debt, banking deserts, and discriminatory farm lending - dismantling the CFPB leaves them more defenseless to financial exploitation.

Maybe dismantling a response to the abuses that caused the 2008 financial crisis is not a good idea…
www.foodandpower.net/latest/cfpb-...

The excess soy and corn produced in the Midwest now that #USAID has been DOGEd portends economic crisis for American farmers… and an impending land grab of the breadbasket.
Also a football game is not going well for #KansasCity

The good looking staffer behind Tuberville is probably on Ritalin/Adderall right now.
He might have stayed up all night writing this petty speech for you. Poor fellow only blinked when he heard the drug’s name

Text overlay on top saying sign the pledge to stay strong against immigration rates with a photo of a person's hand holding up a UFW red card with the words: I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights. These cards are available to citizens and non citizens alike.

Sign the pledge to stand strong against immigration raids and the racial profiling of our friends & neighbors. Targeting and deporting hard-working essential workers who have been struggling for a path to legalization for decades is just wrong. ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou

Food Policy Tracker The Civil Eats Food Policy Tracker is your daily, go-to source for actions taken by the President, federal agencies, and Congress that directly relate to or have significant implications for the food ...

Awesome tool for tracking #foodpolicy from @civileats.com Thank you for all you do!
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Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.

In summary: it’s not that ultra processed food kills us,
1. it addicts us,
2. we over(dose) eat
3. and that kills us
Deadly but with more steps and therefore ~controversy~
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Great article about how #cornsyrup became so ubiquitous in the American diet #foodsystem #sugarlobby #foodlobby #BigAg
media.hubspot.com/why-corn-syr...

Long exposure photo of a highway safety digital sign that reads “SLOW DOWN THE DEALS CAN WAIT”

“SLOW DOWN THE DEALS CAN WAIT” - a friendly reminder for this manic-buying/panic-buying #cybermonday
Do you or your loved ones really need this stuff?

Thanks so much for the #recipe recommendation!
Substituted acorn squash for pumpkin and pomegranate seeds for currants. It reduced much more than expected during baking, but this Pumpion pie turned out delicious!
#thanksgiving #homecooking

“Baa-aa-utiful” film!
My sheep-farming grand uncle recently told me that he had to find a way to get rid of his sheep’s wool because it was a waste product.
Shocking state of the clothing market - only 1% wool.
#regenerative #sheep #fastfashion #wool

Juan has spent 10 years harvesting sweet potato in CA. While the machine picks up most of the vegetables he often has to get on his knees and dig out the sweet potatoes the machine left behind. He does this up to 10 hours a day 5 days a week. #WeFeedYou

With unqualified people at the helm of each agency of the executive branch, citizens have to become much more engaged with governance - fostering the next generation of whistleblowers and leaders.

People check their politicians campaign funding to know all their influences - become resistant to ads

The upside of tariffs is that small, alternative businesses might be able to compete in a marketplace where everything is more expensive, as long as they find creative local supply chains (a narrow but existent set of businesses)

1. Retiring business owners sell their businesses to their employees
2. Employees run businesses as worker-owned co-ops, building democratic leadership skills
3. Those leaders enter politics and support anti-trust, unions and cooperatives

We need to build political skills beyond career politicians

Yuka, the app that rates food and makeup, now lets users complain to companies directly Yuka is a popular health app that allows users to scan the barcodes of food items to quickly see a health ranking based on additives, sugar, saturated fat, and fiber. It also scans cosmetic products, highlighting any harmful substances like endocrine…

Yuka, the app that rates food and makeup, now lets users complain to companies directly

Eggs are delivered to an Egg Packaging or Processing Plant either via conveyor belt directly from the adjoining egg-laying farm or shipped in filler flats from contract flocks across different chicken farms.
Plants wash, check, break and separate the eggs into various products
#eggs #eggnog #farm

Egg cartons arranged to show the Egg Plant Codes and Pack Dates (Julian calendar) below the Best by/ Sell by dates printed on the cartons

To find out where store-bought eggs were packed into cartons, you can look below the Sell By date and look up the Plant code that begins with a ‘P’ here:
publicdashboards.dl.usda.gov/t/MRP_PUB/vi...

Printed, physical receipts are an additional cost that particularly impacts small-to-medium businesses, decreasing margins or increasing costs for customers.
But if receipts were modernized, we might take a closer look at how retail works (and doesn’t work) for us the customers…

As most stores track each person’s purchases (by SKU) anyways, requiring receipts for returns should be obsolete.
The requirement to have a physical receipt just dissuades people from returning items (which saves the store processing and restocking labor costs)

Most receipt paper is thermal paper.
Instead of ink, thermal paper uses Bisphenol-A (BPA) and -S (BPS) as color developers.
These are Endocrine Active Chemicals (EAC) which block or imitate hormones in animals and humans.
So people who touch receipts or tickets regularly increasingly wear gloves…

Cardboard box filled with grocery receipts, collected over the past 2 years

Over 2/3 of the US Economy is Consumer Spending, but consumers only get thermal paper receipts for their records.

Customers are at an enormous disadvantage data-wise.
Data is collected about them every time they make a purchase at a chain store in America.
#dataSovereignty