Now that the sugar industry in the US has been reduced and nearly wiped out with government controls, regulations and rules, we find that the previously touted “new, safer, sugar” is worse than the junk science of bad sugar. We are such a misled nation, misled by the politics of science - consensus.
The sugar industry in the U.S. is protected by high tariff walls. That’s why you pay much more than the world price for the stuff — and that’s why the food industry uses so much HFCS as a substitute. So yeah, government policies are at the root of the problem — but, for very different reasons than you posit.
We are the government and we are here to help. One more glaring example of incompetence and the government.