Food companies and their misleading labels

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Food is for nutrition and to provide the body with energy and vital nutrients. Names of foods help us to know what the likely ingredients might be in it. But often, we notice that food names are misleading. They can fool a person into buying only to realize that it did not meet their expectations and imagination. For instance, take the example of samosa. An ideal samosa is refined wheat flour (maida) wrap with mashed potatoes and boiled peas inside. And when we say paneer samosa (cottage cheese stuffed fried dumplings), the picture that comes to our mind is of a wrap of refined wheat flour dough with paneer inside. But to your disappointment, you will find that these samosas are nothing but the normal samosas with mashed potatoes with or without boiled peas and just 1 small piece of cottage cheese at one corner!!! If we talk about rusks, most of these are made of refined wheat flour or maida which is not healthy. Maida is stripped of all the vital nutrients such as fiber, vitamins,
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Donald Trump and his ample failures during his Presidency 2016-2020 and COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021!

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Donald’s presidency started in 2016 and his last year in office was in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic struck the world. But his policies against it were a failure. Nearly 450k people died in this pandemic and the mean life expectancy also fell by 1.13 years. The fatality rate of the USA due to COVID-19 was 40% higher than that of the other nations. And many of these deaths were easily preventable if the political head was good enough to handle the situation well.

The Lancet report of the Commission on Public Policy and Health

The Commission on Public Policy and Health released a report on the health situation during the Trump-era on 20 February 2021. It detailed the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on the population health of the USA. His actions have been labelled as incompetent and malevolent.

The former President had suppressed scientific facts related to the pandemic. His intention was only economic and did not help the people of the nation. He delayed testing and also mocked face mask-wearing. This did not go well in the national interest. He also went ahead to conduct large gatherings when social distancing guidelines should have made him not do it. He talked about unproven treatments for COVID-19 virus. 


Also, read on Retaliative politics of the USA and India! 

Donald Trump and his wrong policies

The ex-President also pulled the USA from the Paris climate accord and the WHO despite global warming and its ill consequences. He appointed the wrong people on important posts of departments meant to protect people from environmental and occupational hazards. There were regulations in place before but with these wrong appointments, regulations were rolled back and led to 22k deaths in 2019.

Donald’s tax policy was also faulty and led to a USD 1.9 trillion tax cut for wealthy people. This caused a budget hole and needy people’s food and housing assistance was affected negatively. He tried to repeal the ACA and the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2.3 million.

Donald Trump and his human rights violations

The former President did mean acts towards humanity such as non allowing refuge to people of neighboring nations who were trying to flee violence in their countries. He abused immigrant detainees and also penalized them.

Donald Trump-the failed President of the USA [Source: The Atlantic]

Such anti-American and Anti-humanity policies had been done in the past as well by other Presidents of the USA. Nixon, Reagan, Bill Clinton, all have done things that have affected the USA in a negative way. All these have led to health gaps, income gaps, and also education gaps.

Joe Biden has a mighty task ahead to set right the long-term damage of the wrong and biased policies of the previous Presidents of the USA.

 

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