Video on food politics

Today I saw a rarely reported story about how the food corporations (e.g., Pepsico) influence our national school policy that directs what food is served in school lunch programs. This video is about a scientific conference that the feds convened that was supposed to give input about that policy. As the story shows, a lot of the people who attended were food corporation representatives, not scientists.

Our school lunch programs are about $10 billion a year, so its clear that policies which would improve the health of our kids are not going to be happily received by food corporations, which stand to loose a lot of money if we institute healthier policies. Our corporations are profiting off of poisoning the next generation and almost no one even knows about it.