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What monster would object to improved birth outcomes?!
17 upvotes, 4 comments. Sidechat link post by Anonymous in US Politics. "What monster would object to improved birth outcomes?!"
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'It’s Colonizing All Over Again:’ Chefs and Tortilleros React to California’s Fortified Tortilla Mandate ~ L.A. TACO

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Anonymous 4w

To be fair, rice is a common side or ingredient in tex mex cuisine, and the feds required adding folic acid to rice and grains (but not corn products) starting in 1998

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Anonymous 4w

didn’t we do something similar with milk and Vitamin D(?) so black people wouldn’t suffer severe deficiencies from living in places with cold winters

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

yeah to me this reads as an update to fill a gap in existing public health policy the OG enrichment from 1998 lowered neural tube defect rates by 30%. It would be racist to *not* make that outcome equally accessible to communities that don’t rely on rice and bread as much

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

That assumes they buy domestic rice brands

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