Posted on 12/10/2024 6:26:14 PM PST by Miami Rebel
The Archer Daniels Midland wet mill on the outskirts of Decatur, Ill., rises like an industrial behemoth from the frozen, harvested cornfields of Central Illinois. Steam billowed in the 20-degree cold last week, as workers turned raw corn into sweet, ubiquitous high-fructose corn syrup. Three miles away, a Primient mill, which sprawls across 400 acres divided by North 22nd Street, was doing the same.
To Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, this bedraggled city — set deep in Trump country — is the belly of the agribusiness beast, churning out products that he says poison America, rendering its children obese and its citizens chronically ill......
“It’d have a huge impact,” a 37-year-old electrician who would identify himself by only his first name, Tyler, said of Mr. Kennedy’s declaration of war on corn syrup and corn oil. He was grabbing lunch at Debbie’s Diner in the shadow of the mills. “That shuts down Central Illinois, if A.D.M. shuts down.”
Mr. Kennedy’s other track record — on environmental protection and an abiding hatred of America’s unhealthy diet — may have been less of a draw to the fast-food-loving, regulation-hating Mr. Trump, but the former and future president said he would keep Mr. Kennedy’s environmentalism in check while letting him “go wild” on health.
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Mr. Kennedy’s critique is broad and deep. Generous federal crop subsidies of soy, corn and wheat artificially lower their costs, making byproducts like corn syrup cheaper for manufacturers who put it into everything from soft drinks to hot dogs to heavily processed bread. Crop engineering has made American grains more resilient to drought and pests but rendered them “nutrient barren,” he says, and farming practices have loaded grains with pesticides.
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When I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2012 I also went on a no carb and no alcohol diet and also lost 40lb!
The rural areas/small towns are Trump country.
Plain sugar is not a big improvement, health wise.
Food is definitely cheaper in Spain going by supermarket prices. Ive been shocked by what I pay in Safeway in CA, vs Spanish Carrefour. Probably also France.
Can't wait until they get rid of that. Gunks up the new small engine carberators UNLESS one is very careful to meticulously winterize or use fuel stablizer. To me those both are hassles. I've been buying non-ethanol for my small motors for a couple of years. A little more expensive but well worth it.
Okey-dokey, Spaniard.
Travel. And learn. Competitive analysis is a great way to figure out problems, and solutions.
gasbag
driving through southern IL one will quickly come to the conclusion that it is TRUMP country. Chicago F’s it all up for the rest of the state.
True.
But they're still the political sex slaves of Chicago.
Secede, or move.
It’s funny the liberals have to be against what they used to be for. In this case they have been totally for demonizing and opposing corn syrup.
Now they have to say corn syrup is fine.
Elon Musk was talking about international comparisons vs US medical care costs. Go call him a gasbag and a crummy South African. BTW I was on about US medical expenses for 20 years.
People I talked to who were to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, all said food was much, much more expensive there. This was a few years ago.
In Australia, food was much, much more expensive.
That was in simple dollars at the exchange rate.
In terms of percentage of income, food in Europe, as I recall, is about twice as expensive as in the USA.
Here is an article about food prices in Europe.
https://qz.com/2078132/the-us-spends-far-less-on-food-than-europe-but-thats-changing
Hear hear. The importers of Mexican Cokes will be disappointed, though.
I rarely drink soft drinks, but once in a while I get a craving for a Mexican Coke. Aren’t they made with Cuban sugar? Hmm. I don’t know for sure.
—> Big Corn is also ethanol.
Make American Gas Awesome again!
There would be a messy transition, but things would stabilize. ADM has a lot of juice, so we will see whether RFK Jr can get this done.
Definitely changed after 2021.
US food inflation has been terrible.
Eggs, XL Carrefour Bilbao E2.69 a dozen
Do it!
Perhaps they’ll do more educating than regulating and allow consumers to choose.
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