Do you know what you're eating?

Probably not.

Here are 10 mind-blowing facts about the
American food system. 🧵 27 US states legally feed plastic to livestock.

The 'food waste' effort, championed by the nation's largest pork producer @SmithfieldFoods, allows old food and garbage (including packaging) to be ground directly into livestock feed.

How your taxpayer dollars are paying influencers millions for @gotmilk ads. 🧵 Today, Hailey Bieber, Gen Z influencer and wife of @justinbieber, posted a new ad campaign for @gotmilk.

Hailey is one of dozens of new celebs to join the recently revived Got Milk? campaign.

The beef industry has built the most powerful propaganda machine in America.

And they've modeled it after the fossil fuels industry.

Here's how they did it. 🧵 The beef industry has been in hot water for the past near-decade, as more folks have become wise to the industry's destructive nature on the planet.

This is how they've been spending millions of dollars to fight it.

💧 For the first time in history, the US has entered a WATER war and the media refuses to cover the true cause: cows. A must-read on the water crisis. 🧵👇🏼 This week, seven states situated upon the Colorado River have failed to come to agreement, after the @POTUS administration ordered them to develop a water usage cutback plan due to dwindled water levels.

Let's take a look at what's going on...

Months after @BeyondMeat IPOed with the biggest stock market debut in 20 yrs, the Center for Consumer Freedom, the lobbying arm of Big Meat & Big Tobacco, launched a multi-year attack campaign, starting with a $5M Super Bowl ad to claim "plant-based wasn't healthy". The ad tried to draw attention to the "long list" of ingredients in plant-based meats, insinuating that the products were unhealthy and scary to eat.