[neolefty]

Is there a "fat industry"? Sugar production is very industrialized, just a few companies with a strong lobby.

Fat is much more diverse. Sure, there are a few giant soybean oil producers, but it's not their only product, and individual companies don't dominate their market.

[anon1385]

The pork industry for one.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_mania and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-06/bacon-why-...

[LordHumungous]

There are definitely meat and dairy industries.

[Noseshine]

But they are happy to remove the fat and sell you fat-free and/or low-fat versions of their products - just see American supermarket shelves (not nearly as much of that here in German, although even here the low-fat versions are more numerous and more prominently placed). This is hard with sugar-free sugar... :)

[hx87]

Which is why the average American store shelf is full of painfully lean pork and nonfat Greek yogurt (Seriously, WTF?).