Food Babe

 Congress asks: Is cancer a food-based illness?

I f Republicans held a hearing in Congress on food, obesity, cancer and nutrition and nobody heard about it, did it happen? Yes it did. The informal roundtable hearing was held on September 23 in the Russell Senate Office Building by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin). No major mainstream news outlet covered it. The inside the beltway non profit industrial complex (NPIC) groups were nowhere to be found. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the hearing was widely ignored. Johnson and his star witness, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who campaigned for President on the motto – Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) – are turn offs for NPIC and the corporate media. Or as Marion Nestle, a professor of Food and Nutrition at New York University put it – “I’d rather see mainstream nutritionists screaming bloody murder that we’ve created a food supply that’s making people sick.” “Seventy-four percent of Americans are overweight,” Nestle told Civil Eats. “There is something seriously wrong.”