Consumer Confidential: A former corn-syrup lobbyist is drafting new federal dietary rules (seriously)
The swamp isn't just getting deeper. It's being ladled out for supper.
Federal dietary rules are required by law to be updated every five years. Under previous administrations, this task was performed mainly by nutritional experts focused on improving public health.
Under President Trump, the process is being overseen to a large extent by a former lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association - the high-fructose corn syrup industry.
Yes, that would be the same sweetener commonly found in soda, candy, breakfast cereal, canned fruit, condiments and other processed foods and drinks frequently linked with the obesity crisis and increasing rates of diabetes and heart disease.
Meanwhile, a blue-ribbon committee of
