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i know a lot of facts and most of the ones i know about the US government make me feel like i’m wearing a tin hat. this is one of them. (though in some ways it doesn’t surprise me because reagan was literally supervillain level evil) in the graph below, the reason the HFCS line (red) makes that little jump over refined sugar (blue) in the early 80s is because of laws Reagan signed
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Sep 6, 2024

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Yeah, apparently the US’ corn subsidies saw a major bump right around the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfti1#Subsidies
Jul 12, 2025
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@BUGBITESQUARED yep 🙃
Jul 12, 2025
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If I could meet anyone that’s already dead i‘d choose him so I could beat him back to death 👊
Sep 6, 2024
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there are so many but here are a few other US facts that make me feel like like a conspiracy theorist: the usage of teflon in pans; the CIA’s many projects like MKULTRA and COINTELPRO; the LA Police gangs that have existed for decades; pharma industry generally but specifically Purdue (makes oxy)
Sep 6, 2024
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all this subsidized corn yet it’s all for shit. when was the last time we collectively ate a corn on a cob as a nation? 😔
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(That’s okay, I’ll still keep eating that garbage…)
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just kidding. but I do believe the usda and big sugar are obliterating the average american’s chance at a long and healthy life
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for anyone who wants to learn about how scientific knowledge can be influenced through manipulation of data and then disseminated to the masses by biased media, the way scientists with differing theories that don’t align with institutional and corporate interests can be discredited and dismissed by the loudest most persuasive authoritative voices in the room, and the TRUTH about dietary fats that the sugar lobby doesn’t want you to know…
“This makes scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it. In the long run, however, we’re all dead, quite possibly sooner than we would be if we hadn’t been following a diet based on poor advice.”
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