By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 1, 2024
Austin Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine. He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic (Crisis Publications). He can be reached at austinruse@c-fam.org.
Big Food is joined at the hip with Big Pharma. They have set up a system where one makes us sick, and the other makes us medicated patients for life.
One of the great gifts of the Trump Era is that we have come to know the institutions we grew up trusting are corrupt. FBI, corrupt. CIA, corrupt. Judiciary, corrupt. Not that we grew up knowing the NIH or the CDC, but we know now they are corrupt, too.
We knew the media and the academy were corrupt, but we have come to realize they may be irremediably corrupt. I did not know that medicine was corrupt. I had a sneaking suspicion that Big Science was corrupt, but now we know for certain.
I certainly did not know there was such a thing as Big Food and that Big Food is corrupt and evil. Also, Big Food is joined at the hip with Big Pharma. They have set up a system where one makes us sick, and the other makes us medicated patients for life. …