Everything is a Lobby

I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other night, when she made an offhand mention of the Sugar Lobby. I’ve heard of this group before. One of the less famous of the lobby organizations, but it comes up every so often when you’re reading health blogs. She brought it up to point out one of their most influential accomplishments: they successfully lobbied to have sugar content hidden on the nutritional labels of packaging.

Same as it ever was. The inmates are running the asylum. The ve...