You can blame the sugar cartels all you want, The truth is if you’re an American, you finance this shit through your taxes. Corporations suck, but what sucks more is that people don’t realize they help pay for their own slow demise in the name of profit.
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FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it was the Mexican farmers that gave us diabeetus. I’d blame it on the sugar cartels in the US.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh for sure, the broader argument to me would be about sugar subsidies. I don’t support subsidizing the sugar/corn/meat industries. If I had a magic wand I’d much rather those taxes subsidize more nutrient dense foods.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking ag policies, man.
xtools@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
that’s a bingo! rest of the world doesn’t use corn syrup
Paragone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
High-fructose maize isn’t an Indegenous invention: that’s a White invention.
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it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
The maize isn’t high-fructose; corn syrup is entirely an industrial product, made by chemically digesting corn starch. If the yield numbers worked out differently, we could all be eating high fructose wheat syrup or potato syrup, but maize happened to fit into our extractive systems the best, a sad fate for a beautiful grain.