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Corn syrup v. Corn sugar?
This final note today, one that pretty much writes itself, to be honest with you. The Corn Refiners Association has just about had it with the campaign against high fructose corn syrup and how in some studies its been linked to obesity. People have started not buying products that have high fructose anything listed in the ingredients. So refiners would like to suggest a new name. Today, they applied to the Food and Drug Administration to get "corn sugar" approved as an alternative.
The quote of the day comes from Audrae Erickson, the president of the Corn Refiners Association. High fructose corn syrup, she says, has been highly disparaged and highly misunderstood.
Photo: SweetSurprise.com is just one element of the Corn Refiners Association's campaign to counter the bad publicity surrounding high-fructose corn syrup. (SweetSurprise.com)
Yes, the FDA should say no. You'd expect them to, except that, unfortunately, the FDA has been infiltrated by the companies that support the corn industry. Yup. Monsanto, a CHEMICAL company that now OWNS their own genetically modified corn seeds, has their employees now working in the FDA as well. Bottom line is the FDA has been compromised and is no longer looking out for the best interests if the american people and our health. Looks like we're gonna have to count on our own knowledge and choices in order to make any changes. Remember, its all about supply and demand. If people stop buying corn syrup products, (which many already have of course, thats why they are scrambling to advertise it) they wont be able to sell it, and demand will diminish. I honestly think this campaign will backfire. People are not as ignorant as they think we are and there are a lot of people blasting this campaign. I think it will just give everybody that much more reason not to consume HFCS, and in turn, not support the use of it.
I'm happy to tell any and all soda drinkers about studies from Princeton, et al. showing obesity due to HFCS consumption.
This affects Marketplace because it shows how broken our farm subsidy program is. Farm bills originally passed during the depression subsidize corn and even older sugar tariffs inflate the price of sugar.
American universities have shown that HFCS causes markedly higher obesity rates in rats than lower amounts of regular sugar. Americans have higher obesity and diabetes rates than the rest of the world. A significant portion of our debt and medicare costs come from governmental economic distortions resulting in bad food policy that makes us fat, unhealthy and poorer.
Now the corn industry has gone from damage control to government supported fraud with a name change petition. The FDA needs to tell them no.
Yes, the FDA should say no. You'd expect them to, except that, unfortunately, the FDA has been infiltrated by the companies that support the corn industry. Yup. Monsanto, a CHEMICAL company that now OWNS their own genetically modified corn seeds, has their employees now working in the FDA as well. Bottom line is the FDA has been compromised and is no longer looking out for the best interests if the american people and our health. Looks like we're gonna have to count on our own knowledge and choices in order to make any changes. Remember, its all about supply and demand. If people stop buying corn syrup products, (which many already have of course, thats why they are scrambling to advertise it) they wont be able to sell it, and demand will diminish. I honestly think this campaign will backfire. People are not as ignorant as they think we are and there are a lot of people blasting this campaign. I think it will just give everybody that much more reason not to consume HFCS, and in turn, not support the Corn Refiners Association.
Kai, Let's get real. Who is allowing this debacle of euphemistically targeted psudonyms to occur? The FDA? Lawmakers getting their re-election funds enhanced by food manufacturers? With no formula change, is it not the same food additive. To paraphrase Shakespeare: an SUV by any other name is still a gas guzzler.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
I think this says it very well. We must not let the Corn Refiners Association pull the wool over our eyes with sweet talk and soothing video clips. They're only after the big bucks.
