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- Support your local farmers and get a weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) box, delicious!by bix6
- 595 cumulative year of litigation is probably most important statistic here => even when governments eventually win the process itself can be delay policy for yearsby latentframe
- Link to the list of court cases: https://search.openaleph.org/entities/52243ef9aea6719ce8a69e...by wxw
- "But behind closed doors, they have taken governments to court" -- uh, I guess courtrooms technically have doors??by StilesCrisis
- The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.by nickff
- "Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist has of waiting for evidence." - 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbFQc2kxm9c
FYI
obesity 1977 ~14% 2026 40%+
T2 Diabetes 1977 ~3% 2026 ~12%
- I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico and
> many of them were against the country’s labelling regulation. Quinto Elemento Lab reveals the companies’ arguments: that the laws were a violation of their constitutional rights
But the article doesn't say what those rights are, which makes me think the lawsuits were just
by arthurjj