Brigham Buhler on how same companies own big food, big pharma...

2 months ago
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"What was stunning to me is the effectiveness and how speed speedily these conglomerates roll out their misinformation machine. After we testified in front of the Senate and exposed, not just big pharma, not just big insurance, not just the pharmacy benefit managers, but also big food. And if you look at who owns all of these, Alex is right.

As you break it down the majority shareholder of every one of these companies is Blackrock Vanguard State Street. And we can go through one one by one. So I challenge people like, Google Eli Lilly, look at the five biggest shareholders. Now look at Kellogg's who are the by big, big five shareholders. And you go through the insurance companies and you'll find the same usual suspects.

And so we live in a world where you can pull a lever and spray Roundup on food and in all of our crops and round up is traced to causing cancer. But then in the same breath, you've got Bayer who's also owned by the same company. Monsanto and Bayer are one in the same. Bayer actually owns Monsanto, the chemical company now.

And these products that are causing cancer are almost feeding the machine. And I'm not here to say that that's intentional, but when the incentives are skewed, it creates an environment that makes it hard."

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