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Don't the farm lobbies regularly intervene against efforts for better health standards?
I'd say specific segments lobby against better health standards.
Like the sugar lobby pushes against sugar restrictions. Corn lobby pushes for corn subsidies and tries to keep sugar subsidies low.
The only thing I've seen farmers lobby for is the right to repair their tractors.
Nah, associations of farmers have been responsible for monkeying about with dietary recommendations for a long time.
It was all those corn farmers in the Midwest that said you needed to be shoveling the cornmeal like you were a cow to be healthy when they published the food pyramid.
Farmers shut Oprah down 25 years ago.