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If you want some kind of a rebuttal to all the pro–corn syrup propaganda that's been slowly oozing around recently, here's a "scientists say" kind of rundown from the New York Times. It's glib, but it's a step up from know-nothing.
I tried to look up something about U.S. sugar tariffs, which I'd thought were big pro-corn barriers against cheap Latin American can sugar, but this New Yorker bit from a couple of years ago suggests they're more of a U.S. sugar industry thing. But then there's the whole ethanol lobby etc. etc. and you need to go lie down for a while. It's worth remembering now and then, just as a counter-ideology thing, that we don't actually run anything like a pure market economy in this country.
I tried to look up something about U.S. sugar tariffs, which I'd thought were big pro-corn barriers against cheap Latin American can sugar, but this New Yorker bit from a couple of years ago suggests they're more of a U.S. sugar industry thing. But then there's the whole ethanol lobby etc. etc. and you need to go lie down for a while. It's worth remembering now and then, just as a counter-ideology thing, that we don't actually run anything like a pure market economy in this country.
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I'm smack in the middle of reading Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and it very much has me thinking corn, corn, terrible, go lie down. Kyle's reading his more recent follow-up, which is called "For Christ's Sake Don't Eat That" or something, which sounds like a similar depression-maker about food and industry.
Pollan calls out sugar tariffs as a tool of the corn industry too; interesting that Big Sugar is in on the deal.
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