> We’re subsidizing companies that create unhealthy addictive food People love to bitch about the "diet industry" (which as a whole, seems to be almost entirel

> We’re subsidizing companies that create unhealthy addictive food People love to bitch about the "diet industry" (which as a whole, seems to be almost entirely bro-science and snake oil), but the profits made there pale in comparison to fast food and processed food. It's really something that we should fix, like we did with tobacco and alcohol. Fixing food deserts, even though they are not really widespread enough to entirely account for the obesity epidemic, needs to happen as well. And taking subsidies away from animal products like meat, dairy and corn (specifically for HFCS) would go a long ways to improving the standard American diet (aka, SAD).