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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

R.F.K. Jr.’s War on Corn Syrup Brings a Health Crusade to Trump Country

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R.F.K. Jr.’s War on Corn Syrup Brings a Health Crusade to Trump Country

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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When Donald J. Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could “go wild” on health, he might not have expected his pick for health secretary doing battle against the president-elect’s own voters.
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      Yup, this one might accidentally be good for American health.

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        Don’t know if I’d say accidentally in this case but I agree. Now we wait for the corn lobbyists to tear it apart

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      The brain worm is suffering from all the fast food on the Trump plane.

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        no the fast food is good for the brain worm

        the brain worm wants the fast food

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    He’s not wrong, our food in the U.S. sucks, and corn syrup is a big part of it. I hate to agree with someone who’s so far advanced an incredibly anti-science view of health. But, he has a point on this one.

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      He really is a grab bag full of good ideas and the worst ideas.

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    Those Iowa senators are going to love this shit.

    Iowa farmers: We’re voting Republican because we can’t stand socialism. Also Iowa farmers: Where’s our federal welfare in corn subsidies?

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      Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, all of them will be hurtimg between this and the promise of a trade war with China that they didn’t recover from during Trump’s first disastrous term.

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      They will get plenty of Federal welfare in the form of Trump’s expanded Ethanol subsidies.

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      He’s also pro-psychedelics, which is fantastic. We have decades of research and normalization to catch up on.

      He’s his own brand of crazy. We’re still better off without him by about a trillion percent. Not even close to worth it.

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      Is corn syrup more harmful than other sugar sources? Probably not. But it would be nice to be able to afford food that’s not loaded with it.

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        Yeah people don’t realize that “high fructose” corn syrup used in food products, actually has less fructose than regular sugar. It’s mostly just beverages that are more, and it’s arguable how much that 5% difference actually matters.

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    This crusade vs HFCS is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of the maxim “Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while”.

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      That’s a stupid maxim, pigs have an excellent sense of smell.

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        What are you? A reviewer for a scientific journal or something?

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    Only good thing RFK might do, but might be balanced out by rolling out a red carpet for polio.

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