Asklemmy

44151 readers

1523 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

If the American embargo of Cuba ended, what do you think would happen to the USA and Cuba? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 9 months ago by HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This isn't meant to be a discussion on the morality of the embargo, but the affects of the embargo ending for both countries. These affects can be political, economic, or social.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They'd both suddenly benefit... the impact on America would be pretty minimal economically simply due to scale but it probably would improve health by moving us partially off corn syrup. And for Cuba it'd end decades of arbitrary economic kneecapping by the US. Tourism would probably explode since it'd be a shorter flight than cancun from the east coast and, y'know, not fucking Florida.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it would have any significant impact on corn syrup usage.
The US already produces about nine times more sugar cane than Cuba does. We also import it from countries like Brazil and the other Caribbean islands.

Our usage of corn syrup is because it's very cheap to begin with, and for various reasons it's desirable to keep food production, including corn, higher than demand would normally require.
That has one effect of further lowering the price of corn syrup.

The only thing that'll get us to cut back the amount of corn syrup in foods is the (slow) growing trend of consumers preferring foods that don't have added sugar, which would also preclude cane sugar.

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Corn syrup is mainly cheap because of the huge subsidies, putting that money to better use supporting veggie or fruit production would make us all a lot healthier

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

It'll still be cheap and easy to use without the subsidies, since it's not like we're going to stop growing the corn even if it's more expensive. Lowering the price of healthier foods will do a lot of good, but there's also the part where people need to change their tastes.
We just like food that's too sweet.