/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16582575
It's all profit driven. The corn industry in America is a huge, billion dollar business. Several US states plant miles and miles of corn. Farmers, truck drivers, restaurants, fuel companies, I mean you name it. It's a huge industry.

Ever since corn syrup was invented and popularized after WW2, the corn industry has spent millions of dollars in Washington sending lobbyists to convince senators and the American public to put corn syrup in everything. Soft drinks, candy; it didn't matter, they wanted corn syrup in everything. Even after studdies revealed that it does nothing but make us fatter and fatter; everything is sacraficed in the name of the all mighty dollar.

"Why do Americans put corn syrup in everything" and "Why are over 30% of Americans obese" have the same answer: "we did it to ourselves to make more money". You'll find that answer works a lot in the questions in the vein of "why is America so dog shit nowadays".

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/04/food-lobbying-in-action-the-corn-syrup-crusaders/237391/