Big food is a lot closer to being the sort of industry that promotes habit-forming products that kill their consumers (via obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc

Big food is a lot closer to being the sort of industry that promotes habit-forming products that kill their consumers (via obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc.) The unhealthy food industry also lobbies against regulation (such as sugar or snack taxes, or banning unhealthy foods in schools), and blames the consumers of their products. I wouldn't be surprised if they funded biased scientific studies as well. Meanwhile sugar subsidies cost US taxpayers billions of dollars. Also consider the "low-fat" movement that blamed fat for obesity, disease, and death while ignoring soda and highly processed foods loaded with sugar, simple carbs, sodium, and additives.