No Heart

So much for health:

The AHA is part of the "blob," and the blob is all apart ensuring that the current establishment remains fat and happy. It's stated purpose is to promote heart health; its real purpose is to perpetuate a system in which its donors and partners make as much money as possible. When I saw that tweet I thought it might have been taken out of context, but I was unsurprised to find out that it covered almost all the testimony, shortened a bit for brevity. I watched the entire thing at the Texas Legislature site--it is very brief, since they limit testimony to two minutes--and the only substantive thing said other than the basic point that sugary foods and drinks are somehow necessary for the nutrition of low income people is a plea to increase overall funding for SNAP. After all, the more money, the more crap people can buy. You can watch the testimony here, and the AHA testimony begins 2 hours and 51 minutes into the committee hearing. I looked up who funds the AHA Nutrition Forum, and as you would guess, it is filled with big food industry corporations including Cargill, PepsiCo, and seed oil companies. And even more troubling is that the VAST majority of Heart Association funding comes from Big Pharma.

They love their own fat...