Robert Lustig on Ending Farm Subsidies for Corn and Sugar: recommends

Dr. Robert Lustig recommends ending farm subsidies that make corn and sugar artificially cheap, breaking up monocultures, and supporting regenerative agriculture. He argues that subsidies rig prices in favor of unhealthy ingredients, distorting consumer signals — citing a UC Berkeley Giannini Foundation modeling exercise in support of that claim.

His stated reasoning is that the food system is downstream of agricultural policy: as long as policy makes unhealthy calories the cheapest calories, he says, dietary guidance alone cannot fix metabolic health. He advocates regenerative farming as the path to healthier, more affordable food.

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