Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with food. We eat too much of it, and not the best kind; as high as 75% of Americans are considered obese. Yet our popular culture lionizes models and actors so painfully thin many of them suffer from anorexia. The latest attempt by the body-positivity movement to fight fat-shaming comes in the form of online “fat-fluencers,” one of whom has been hired by San Francisco as its weight stigma czar. Meanwhile, HHS nominee RFK Jr. is going after Big Food on the grounds that they’re inhibiting his drive to Make America Healthy Again.
Co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan investigate these latest developments in our national Food Fight.
On this episode, we’ll explore complaints of the exploitation of African farmers by multinational Western corporations -- and how recent anti-Western sentiment in African politics may turn this so-called “chocolate war” into a hot one.
Exploring the exportation of hate - from country to country – cross borders from the US to anywhere and vice versa. How HATE is in big demand around the world.
It’s presently the most populated country on earth. China with its nearly 1.4 billion residents is projecting a dip in population in the coming years -- while hawks are predicting a complete bust in its development.
Meanwhile -- the United States is seeing the slowest birth rate in more than 30 years.
So what does that all mean for the world’s top 2 superpowers? We’ll discuss it on the Chan's Mouth podcast!
*** First, apologies for my audio quality. I recently moved my studio setup and my new mic/other equipment hadn't arrived at the time of this recording.
On to the interview:
Matthew Hoh is an injured, Marine Corp. Iraq War veteran. He's running for US Senate for North Carolina on the Green Party ticket. He explains how the Democrat Party in NC played some dirty tricks to try to kick him off the ballot for the November midterm elections. We also discuss medicare for all, Julian Assange, and media manipulation in service to the political duopoly in America.
Learn more about Matthew Hoh's grassroots campaign here:
https://www.matthewhohforsenate.org/