• @Telorand@reddthat.com
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    701 year ago

    Here’s one that’s real: he’s promised to ban high-fructose corn syrup, which is banned in most other developed countries. It should have been banned in the US decades ago.

    He might be a wakadoodle, but he might still get a few things right by accident

      • @jerakor@startrek.website
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        61 year ago

        Once they raise the global temperatures enough all of the Iowa corn farmers can just farm rice and sugar cane along the Iowa coastline.

      • GHiLA
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        31 year ago

        Or those of the pecan pie persuasion.

        • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Use golden syrup, sorghum or honey?

          Admission: I can’t stand pecan pie because of it’s hyper-sweetness. Maybe less corn soup would help?

          • GHiLA
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            11 year ago

            I think the problem is pecan pie’s entire existence depending on something terrible lol

    • @finderscult@lemmy.ml
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      101 year ago

      Hell try and then we’ll be reading a news story about how his brain worms finally kennedy’d him the next hour after the attempt. HFCS and the multitude of corporations producing and using it aren’t some pushover industry like oil and natural gas, they have actual power.

      There’s a reason corn is in everything processed in the US.

      • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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        21 year ago

        How tf is the oil and natural gas industry a pushover? They’re literally destroying the earth and getting away with it.

    • @XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      All the pro-small-government people I know (the ones wanting less oversight on guns) are excited for this ban and don’t see the irony that they’re really only small-government in the topics they want, big-government in others they decided are bad (hfcs, some red dye, banning men from women’s bathrooms). We all want government protections, turns out.

      • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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        51 year ago

        Yeah, and to be clear, I’m not thrilled about him being in charge of health, but if that’s gonna be one of his things that he gets right, I would be stupid not to take what little solace I can get.

    • HEXN3T
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      31 year ago

      This implies the US is a developed country.

      • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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        21 year ago

        I mean, it is by most definitions that I’m aware of. It might be run by fascists, oligarchs, and ultracapitalists, but it’s definitely developed.

        I’m not sure what standard you are applying that would place it in a “developing” or other category.