@gracie88888 @silvopasturist @TornadoNate @simoningall Corporate bodies? Call Ronald McDonald what he is: not a clown but a lurid, grease-slick idol astride the gate between childhood innocence and metabolic catastrophe—every ad a syringe-full of cartoon euphoria into the developing limbic system. The diabetes cult? Hook ’em young.
@nils_gilman @johnrobb 2/ What, then, of the catastrophic collapse in US childhood health predating social media's arrival, and its impact on the very foundations of national welfare? Does our ruling cla$$ honestly give two cahoots about what truly matters? What, in essence, is the fa$t-food algorithm? x.com/nick_routledge1/status/1882029274074677308
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Child nutrition. How's it going, General Myers? In the US, as many as 40% of recruits were rejected during World War II due to malnutrition. Today, “71 percent of youth between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible for military service. One of the main medical disqualifiers is malnutrition.” strongnation.org/articles/1335-breaking-point