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The Pompano Diet

The Pompano Diet
"The Pompano, Trachinotus carolinis," 1898. The New York Public Library Digital Collections, Public Domain)
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We should all feel grave embarrassment about the popularity of Ozempic and other weight-loss innovations. It’s a huge market, likely hitting $20 billion this year, one that emerges from the seeming success of the systems that gave plentiful food to humanity for the first time since time immemorial.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]