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Yes, I'm shocked, shocked,<\/i> to discover that a government-sponsored industry group and their government sponsors were coopted to serve the interests of that industry against competing American start-up businesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nGovernment-backed egg lobby tried to crack food startup, emails show | US news | The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Yes, I'm shocked, shocked, to discover that a government-sponsored industry group and their government sponsors were coopted to serve the interests of that industry against competing American start-up businesses. Government-backed egg lobby tried to crack food startup, emails show | US news | The Guardian View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30298,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/publisher-shocked-shocked-to-discover-price-competition.html","url_meta":{"origin":127867,"position":0},"title":"Publisher shocked, SHOCKED, to discover price competition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Sep-12 12:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How could any market possibly survive where sellers are not only allowed but want to sell the same product at different prices? 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