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Originally Posted by Ihealyou
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While we're on this point, you could say that sugar tarrifs lead to increased global hunger too. Farmers grow corn in the US to make corn syrup since its expensive to import sugar, and there is little domestic sugar production. Instead of growing corn to eat or other edible crops, farmers are just making us fat. On a more global scale, places that grow sugar cane, such as South America, are worse off due to the US not importing their sugar.
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I'm glad you bring up corn. I totally agree with you about corn syrup thing.
On the flip side recently they have started making plastics out of corn which is very exciting! 100% biodegradable packaging... I'm even told that if you at the container, your body would digest it! (I'm not going to test that out however.)
Sorry, I got sidetracked...