Reply #82: Robbien [View All]

"In the Request, the Company asserted that the imposition by Mexico of a discriminatory tax on beverages containing HFCS breached various obligations of Mexico under the investment protection provisions of NAFTA."

No Mexico taxed HFCS beverages more than, I'm assuming, their native cane sugar based products.
I'm guessing if it were taxed at the same rate there never would have been a problem.
This reminds me of the junk food tax. Why focus on junk food, why not white bread? or sugar coated breakfast cereal?

My opinion, and I'm prepared for the attacks, is that a successful species gets fat. Less active pursuits like shopping instead of hunting gathering causes you to burn fewer calories. Even then body type designates how much weight one will carry not slim lipoed white people.
Historically fat people were successful people. Pacific islander women were fattened for marriage. Jeans and tans meant you were poor working stiffs and pale white people were rich successful toffs. No callouses another signifier of success.
Now everyone is expected to look like an anorexic Bangladeshi.
All designed to prey on our guilt and vanity.