HOW BIG SUGAR INFLUENCES NUTRITION SCIENCE: A FIRST GLIMPSE AT SUGAR INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS

Many people think sugar is a drug. And taxpayers subsidize the industry.

(From Crossfit.com)

The accumulated archives include a record of instances in which the Sugar Association, a 501(c)6 formerly known as the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), used public relations campaigns and industry funding to influence scientific research, education, and public policy, thereby supporting its mission to promote sugar consumption.

Several documents suggest sugar industry strategies became a model for the now-infamous marketing campaigns used by Big Tobacco, “so it could be that the sugar industry was in this game before the tobacco industry,” Kearns explains.