An industry built on selling high fructose corn syrup in midst of massive pro-soda lobbying effort | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The soda industry — including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the American Beverage Association — has spent at least $106 million on lobbying and advertisements in the past six years to kill local, state and federal public health initiatives, reveals an analysis released Tuesday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Actual spending was probably much…