The word suffix “cide” means something is being killed, by the way. “Pesti-cide” means something that kills pests. “Fungi-cide” means something that kills fungus. “Herbi-cide” means something that kills plants (herbs). Similarly, “Geno-cide” loosely means killing a targeted group of people, usually for some evil purpose of control, profit or cultural extermination.
I find it interesting that if terrorists put a chemical in the food supply that killed a million people, it would be called a great crime against humanity, and we’d probably bomb some nation into dust in retaliation. But when a U.S. food corporation puts chemical additives into the food that ultimately kill a million people through heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes, nobody seems to notice. Food companies have been given a free pass to commit genocide by the very people who are supposed to be regulating them: the FDA and USDA in the United States, and other regulatory agencies in Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
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