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by ajross 2588 days ago
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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I think that's the point. By ending corn subsidies, we'd raise the price of sugar.
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...

Marginally, yeah. But spinning that as "corn is toxic" is a bit much. Corn is perfectly fine as a food and a feed.