rt, will you ban it?

  • Fisk400@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    Just removing subsidies on corn would solve the core problem. There are lots of things corn is used for that shouldn’t be corn that also get fixed by that.

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      1 year ago

      This is the answer. High fructose corn syrup is over-used because it’s dirt cheap to produce, and it’s only dirt cheap to produce because corn is subsidized.

      As much as I love my bourbon whiskey, I’ll accept the fact that prices will go up if corn stops being subsidized, but that’s what’s desperately needed in this country.

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    1 year ago

    The downside of HFCS isn’t the syrup itself, but the fact that it is so cheap and is easily able to be added to make things taste “better” for basically no cost.

    I would end the corn subsidies in America. They make bank anyway

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.com
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    1 year ago

    No, because, it does not fix the root problem.

    Also, banning things isn’t the way to fix things.

    I would also be a hypocrite for changing to legalize pot, while also chanting to ban corn-based sugars.