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Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Importance of Subsidies in Processing

The Farm Bill was the thing that allowed for that to happen. And now fast forward almost 100 years, the subsidies. Those subsidies are a problem. The more we try to break it, the more they push back and exert political pressure on every administration since since Eisenhower. Do you know offhand the dollar amount of subsidies that goes to to process foods and sugar and big a roughly? It's about I think it well in in 2015 - 192 billion dollars.

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