Welcome to the so-called Land of Opportunity, where opportunity often means the freedom to cripple the health of an entire nation – and do it with legal immunity. Here, as long as you’re wearing a lab coat or cashing a six-figure check, you’re called a “great American.” Meanwhile, behind closed doors, the poisoning of the public continues – systemic, strategic, and state-approved.

For decades, the food industry – backed by government enablers – has been allowed to manufacture and sell products that aren’t just unhealthy, they’re addictive by design. And guess who quietly slithered into the mix to help? The tobacco industry (some known as the Merchants of Death)- the same corporations that spent decades knowingly killing people with cigarettes are now feeding our kids processed foods engineered to destroy from the inside out.

They didn’t reinvent themselves – they just changed the packaging. Same strategy. Same results. Create a product more addictive than any street drug, make it legal, and sell it globally.

Today, you’ll find the fingerprints of Big Tobacco all over the processed food game. From chemical-laced snacks to sugar-pumped drinks, they’ve helped weaponize food in the same way they weaponized nicotine. (Remember the kids cigarettes that made it fun to smoke, including blowing off the powder as smoke. Diabolical) The only thing missing is a Benson & Hedges funeral home offering a discount casket with your last Happy Meal. “Ashes to ashes. We got you covered – from your first puff to your final breath.” Free pack with every funeral combo.

Thirty years ago, Type 2 diabetes in children was virtually non-existent. Now it’s exploding. That’s not coincidence. That’s business. And it starts with getting our kids hooked young – hooked on sugar, dyes, lab-born flavor enhancers, and chemically designed cravings. It’s addiction repackaged as convenience.

Got Growth?

Let’s look at the physical results of these experiments. You now have 5’8″ parents raising 6’8″ kids. This isn’t a genetic miracle – it’s a biological side effect. The NBA used to have two or three seven-footers in the entire league. Now almost every team has one on the bench. Where did all this freakish growth come from?

Look no further than the dairy industry.

Big Ag, backed by the government, flooded the market with growth hormone-laced milk. Factory farms pumped cows full of synthetic chemicals to speed up development, increase milk production, and push reproduction cycles into overdrive. And those hormones didn’t disappear – they were passed straight through to the milk, and then into us.

The U.S. government went full marketing mode, pushing milk like a legalized street drug. “Got Milk?” wasn’t just a slogan – it was a campaign backed by billion-dollar interests. Celebrities, athletes, and cartoon characters lined up to sell it. And kids drank it by the gallon.

What did we get? Super-sized bodies, early-onset puberty, and worse – especially for young girls. Their bodies developed faster, too often catching the attention of the wrong kind of adult. Let’s not dance around it: this also fed fantasies of predators and pedophiles. This isn’t just corporate negligence – it’s complicity. And yet again not a single politician, farmer, or investor ever brought up on charges for the immense damages our children now adults having children have had to deal with physically nor psychologically. No, they’re just considered great business people; never being held accountable.

“Got Milk?”

No – got played.

Minority communities, once again, are first in line for these food experiments – over-saturated with fast food, corner stores, and cheap, chemical-rich options. But we can’t pretend we’re powerless. Parents must stand up. Feeding a child poison daily isn’t love. It’s abuse. We don’t need more government studies to prove it. We need backbone. We need accountability.

But let’s be clear: the real criminal wear suits, sit on boards, and get praised at shareholder meetings. Food scientists, tobacco veterans, politicians – they all know what these lab foods do. We’re talking about birth defects, hormone disruption, heart disease, infertility, and death. And they don’t care.

Worse yet, they charge us more for food without toxins. Not to add anything – just to not poison us. And we pay it, like suckers, believing “organic” labels that often mean nothing. Because even that’s been corrupted.

We’ve been sold out. And we keep paying the price.

Want a tip? Turn the box or package over. If the ingredients are longer than a sentence, it’s not food – it’s a chemical time bomb. If you can’t tell where it came from, (animal, grass, seed, fruit, vegetable) don’t be shocked when your body becomes a mystery product too.

This isn’t just about food. It’s about a legacy of corporate predation that began with cigarettes and now lives in every aisle of your grocery store.

This is about truth.

This is about power.

This is about survival.

Because when the same industries that profited off your last breath are now engineering your first bite – you better believe the end was planned from the beginning.

Do you remember when food started to taste weird?

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