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katakowsj · 2233 days ago · link · · parent · post: Fucking businesses fucking up the fucking democratic process.
Isn't this all a result of folks, far and wide, now recognizing that for over a hundred years, we've consuming a pleasurable beverage with negative effects that far outweigh it's positives? Big Soda is scared and is just buying time.
Soda didn't really come into its own until the '80s because of the massive grain surpluses of the '70s due to hedgerow-to-hedgerow agricultural policy. Fundamentally, our agricultural system was designed to win the Cold War and the Cold War been won. Everything you're seeing now is an attempt deal with the imbalance.