For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science

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If you haven’t already, dig into Fijian history. The country used to be run as a giant CSR plantation.

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Thanks for the link. This could very well be useful for talking about the end of the slave trade and the shift to the slave trade by another name (indentured work). It’s worth remembering that the entire global south was raided and enslaved for the edification of some in the global north.

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Could be an exception but my Mom told me to go easy on sugar and salt when I was little.

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Hmmm…

It looks like those ads were more common before the obesity epidemic really set in … shortly after cyclamates were banned.

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I’m reminded of the classic Onion article “Hershey’s Ordered To Pay Obese Americans $135 Billion.”

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