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We're all Nipple-Pinching, Effing Doomed - NOT!

Unlike other comedy news shows, each Bait and Switch TV episode examines one controversial topic in tremendous detail. Then, this new INTERNET TV CHANNEL encourages the audience on BOTH sides of an episode's controversy to get involved and act on the issues via LIVE ONLINE DEBATES and various pro and con ACTIVISM efforts organized, tracked, and implemented from this baitandswitchtv.com website. We also provide COMICAL ONLINE GAMES tied to each TV episode/controversy, some of them multiplayer games, that allow you to interact with other viewers.

What this TV channel does is continually put a controversy in focus while asking the audience to consider:

HOW DO ANY OF US KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE?

We collect and organize deep-dive evidence and positions on both sides of an issue for your review, never dumbing it down, and deliberately punching it up with levity , animation, and music to help make some dire or dreary news and views easier to consume. Then we schedule LIVE DEBATES with experts on both sides of the issues we examined in the TV shows to INCLUDE you in the conversation. This allows YOU to interview the experts and policy makers directly.

Unlike mainstream news gatherers, we trust you the audience to stick with the investigation of a complex, longterm argument with the option of learning more and getting personally involved. Then we invite you to actually get involved with these issues and controversies, which affect us all, when the outcome or direction of the controversy matters to you.

For example, in the first episode on the US meat, poultry, and dairy food supply, Bait and Switch TV does not suggest you stop eating meat, or that you buy only organic meats (we dont even mention organic meats or dairy foods). Truly, we want you to think and decide for yourselves. However, we do tell you in some detail what is IN this food supply and how some of it is manufactured (this episode is about ingredients, not about animal treatment). A lot of the ingredients in meat production ARE being tested on you. These compounds, drugs, GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, and technologies may or may not be safe, but the FDA recently passed a law, the NO LABELING LAW, that states that you have NO RIGHT TO KNOW if you're eating cloned meat or dairy, for example. Whether you think cloned or genetically-engineered food experiments are a good or bad thing, this is still America and you DO have a right to know. So one of the Activism efforts is geared toward overturning the NO LABELING LAW. Another is directed at supporting the current Antibiotics Misuse bill Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick which is an indisputable contributor to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics that no longer work in sick humans.

But to be clear, we are a PRO science, technology, and innovation investigative group. In our epigenetics episode, we firmly support and herald new, emerging epigenetic therapies for cancer treatment--this new science may well be the cure to cancer in our lifetime! And our nanotechnology episode is again a very positive examination of technologies and advancements that will make an important and essential difference in the lives of countless people around the world. Should these technologies be tested on you? YOU decide!

On the political spectrum, there are countless controversies to bone up on, most of them anything but black and white. And there is so much divisiveness over many of these issues that Bait and Switch TV strives to find the path on which opposing positions can meet and together find inroads to the power structure and decision-making circles that, these days, seem only to serve lobbyists and power brokers. We do need to start standing together. There is so much at stake now, and the time has come to take a firm hold on our democracy, or lose it.

Our US constitution and free market system have led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity, freedom, power, honor, and security ever known to mankind. But the people in this country are considered too stupid to understand "the issues" and details, and too many mainstream depictions of the controversies and important issues in our cultural landscape are either polarized to the point of absurdity or dumbed down to the point of irrelevance--allowing only those in power to have access to the facts to use and repurpose as they wish.

Let's join together to become more informed, to laugh and learn together, and to be more directly engaged in our representational democracy. This is how TV can become truly interactive! Let's stand behind the American belief in a free-market supply and demand system, but one that also advocates, and demands, an informed populace and a capitalism enacted with conscience and integrity.

Here are some of the controversies and issues B