The United States has redefined what qualifies as "healthy" food for the first time in 30 years, striking items like white bread from the list while welcoming nutrient-rich options such as eggs and salmon, officials said Thursday.

The article seems to be shittily written in my opinion but I figure if you watch the video (about a minute) it will get the point across.

My question lies in, do you think this will benefit the health of the people moving forward, or do you fear it being weaponized to endorse or threaten companies to comply with the mention of Kennedy being tied to its future as mentioned in the end of the article

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    15 hours ago

    Half of them are only cheap because of heavily subsidized corn being heavily processed into an inordinately cheap sugar substitute.

    Taxes aren’t really raising prices so much as undoing the subsidies distorting the market.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 hours ago

      Then remove the fucking subsidies! What you’re proposing is that taxpayer money in the form of subsidies goes into the pockets of wealthy agricultural corporations, and then more tax payer money in the form of sin taxes goes to the government to purchase those products, which the government turns around and gives right back to the same corporations. Sheesh! Should we tip them too while we’re at it?

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 hours ago

        “Repeal farm subsidies” is one of the few things you could walk into congress and have overwhelming opposition to from both sides.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I didn’t propose anything.

        But your summary makes absolutely no sense. A tax on manufactured corn syrup after subsidizing corn is functionally the same thing as removing the subsidy for just corn used to make corn syrup.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      15 hours ago

      So your saying the sales taxes are like tariffs, as they are being used to spread the cost to all purchasers without reguard to income making them harm lower and middle class people more, without ever having to raise taxes back to reasonable levels for the high income members of society. (3 million a year+)

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        15 hours ago

        I’m not saying anything about sales tax.

        I’m saying that if you tax foods high in corn syrup, you’re just making it cost what it’s supposed to cost. You’re literally subsidizing the least healthy food at the moment.