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		teej 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed f... The food pyramid was published by the department of agriculture, it’s always been propaganda.

8bitsrule 3 months ago [–]

Thanks to the dedicated work of Edward Bernays... nephew of Sigmund Freud ... and the Creel Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...

When Lucky Strike needed more women to smoke cigarettes in the late 1920s, it turned to Bernays.

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