Something else about the article caught my eye: "During the 1970s, a ruling by the Food and Drug Administration dashed hopes that an extract of [the harmless] miraculin could be sold as a sugar substitute"--demonstrating that the "Sugar-Industrial Complex" (mine) still exerts a tremendous influence over policy. If you think I'm nuts, see: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. (The trade in sugar, composing 1/3 of the Triangular Trade, was a primary impetus for the slave trade, which provided the human capital necessary to quench Europe's hunger for sugar and thirst for its derivative, rum).
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