4 companies process 85% of the beef in this country, and the price at the counter keeps climbing. President Trump wants to loosen that grip, vowing legal action to let ranchers process their own meat. His side says more competition would finally bring prices down. The packing industry's lobby warns the opposite, that thinner inspection could let unsafe meat onto shelves.

To add insult to injury, even the plant-based swap is compromised. A study of the UK market tested 212 plant-based meats and milks and turned up a mycotoxin, the poison some molds leave in crops, in every one. The amounts stayed under the legal limit, so one bite will not hurt you. The concern is what stacks up, meal after meal.

Another week, another study on short video. This one put people in a brain scanner while they watched. When a clip was one they liked, 2 regions went quiet, the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate. These are the parts that run focus and self-control.

A recent review of 71 studies on short video, covering almost 100,000 people, found heavy users scored lower on attention and self-control, and reported more anxiety and worse sleep. One brain scan is easy to wave off. That many people is harder.

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Came across a wild one from a few years back. A teenager in England had eaten more or less the same thing since he was a kid. Fries, Pringles, white bread, a bit of processed ham. Nothing green, ever. At 14 he felt tired and looked pale, so doctors ran his blood, saw his B12 was low, and put him on injections.

Seemed handled. Then his hearing started slipping, and his eyesight followed it down. By 17 he was legally blind, and it never came back. The name for it is nutritional optic neuropathy, the optic nerve slowly starved of what it needs. What gets me is how boring the cause was. No poison, no freak disease. Just years of eating the way half the country eats, pushed all the way to the extreme.

Story one asked who really controls your beef. Your turn:

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ No (224)
🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yes (88)
🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Neither (79)

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Now his body makes a hemoglobin that does not sickle. Within weeks, most of his blood was healthy for the first time in his life, and 20 years of the disease were behind him.

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