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Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024... by ajross on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:15AM (#20001732)
I'm not aware of anything specific to HFCS and inflammation that doesn't apply to any other fructose source. It's cheap sugar. Sugar is bad for you.
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Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024... by behringer on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:38AM (#20001990)
I think that's the point. By ending corn subsidies, we'd raise the price of sugar.
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Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024... by A2017U1 on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:05PM (#20003910)
Sugar prices in the states are double what everyone else on Earth pays due to perverse protectionism funded by the taxpayer. So many of my American friends never believe this either but it's true. Same with corn which is very much related.

https://www.thebalance.com/markets-for-us-and-world-sugar-80...

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Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024... by ajross on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:09AM (#20002324)
Marginally, yeah. But spinning that as "corn is toxic" is a bit much. Corn is perfectly fine as a food and a feed.
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