Do you know what is more dickish? When people ignore arguments made and go off wargarbling over imaginary bogeymen.
Incorrect. Being a condescending dickhead is still more dickish.
You know what? Being condescending is what got people here to say that their analogies were bad. I don't really care about your feelings, I care about what is and what isn't.
But sugar? Seriously? Are we just supposed to go back to Ye Goode Olde Days when the big-name sweetener was honey? Oh, no, wait, regulating sugar is just going to result in a HFCS surge. As if we needed that.
HFCS is sugar.
Another voice to end corn subsidies. It's high-fructose corn syrup that's the problem, not sugar in general. (And HFCS is, as I said, in everything, so taxing it at a consumer level would just drive up the prices of all foods)
Wrong, biochemically sucrose (table sugar) is a dimer composed of one fructose and one glucose which is immediately broke into its constituents. HFCS is mixture comprised of a ~1:1 ratio of fructose and glucose. Nutritionally, they're the same and led to the same problems.
OK, why do my posts keep disappearing? Ugh. *posts a note in "Forum Issues" about it*
Parents tend to not think of corn syrup and sugar as being the same thing, because they're labeled differently in ingredients lists on food packaging. Remember, the bogeyman held up to parents is "
sugary foods," so parents are looking for the word "sugar." When an ingredients list says "Flour, corn syrup, sugar, [blah, blah, blah], high-fructose corn syrup," how many people are going to make the connection that three different ingredients on the list are all sugars? That's like expecting people to know without being told that "blueberry bits" and blueberries are not the same thing.
Ending corn subsidies will make it so that the use of corn syrup is no longer cost-effective. Since other sweeteners tend to cost more, and sugar supplies are limited because of its limited growing range, ending corn subsidies should help cut down on the ridiculous amount of oversweetening in processed foods today.
Part of the reason why I avoid spices and sugars is because I want to taste
food. Not added junk, but the actual meats, grains, fruits and vegetables that are nourishing my body. I spent so much of my childhood eating sugar-laden garbage that flavors other than "sweet" are a source of never-ending delight to me. When I eat a Kashi bar, I taste grains, fruit, nuts, and chocolate or peanut butter if I'm eating those varieties. When I eat any other brand of granola bar, I taste sugar and damn near nothing else. It's overpowering.