Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

The combined lobbying effort between 2013 and 2015 was $143 million that was spent by the

food industry to prevent chemo labeling.

Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimner and that's Pharmacy

of the F-A-R-M-A-C-Y-A place for conversations that matter.

And if you care about our food system, today's conversation is going to matter because it's

another one of my mini-soes on my new book Food Fix.

How to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet one by day time.

And today's subject is the dirty politics of big food and how that influences our government

food policies and why we need to change it.

You know, if you look at our government's food policies, it's just a mess.

Eight agencies oversee the government's food-related policies and they all work in silos.

They don't coordinate with each other very often.

And their policies are confused, contradictory, and conflicted.

In many cases, they're completely in opposition to each other.

For example, we tell people to avoid sugar and to eat whole foods and to avoid junk food

and processed foods on the one hand with our dietary guidelines.

And on the other hand, with our Food Stampers Snap program,

we spend $75 billion a year, three-quarters of which is for junk food,

and 10% of that is for soda.

So how does that make any sense?

The problem is that most of our food and agriculture policies undermine public health,

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