You can have my corn syrup when you pry it from my cold, sticky fingers.
Posted on 05/22/2011 11:11:23 AM PDT by DannyTN
I’m not about to take seriously anything Europe does.
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Right! and fast food french fries suck! I stopped eating them long ago and make my own now...delicious!
I understand Karo is not the same as the HFCS we’re talking about. Different manufacturing process.
Right! and fast food french fries suck! I stopped eating them long ago and make my own now...delicious!
Right! and fast food french fries suck! I stopped eating them long ago and make my own now...delicious!
I blame gym teachers. If they did their jobs rather then throw out a few balls, more kids would get the required exercise they need to stay fit and this becomes irrelevant.
sorry for the triple post...don’t know what happened.
Drink water instead of soda pop - stands to reason a) you’ll be better off and b) you’ll save money.
Regardless of the possible health hazards, HFCS exists solely because of government subsidies. High tariffs on imported sugar and subsidies of sugar beet farmers make price of sugar in the US far above the world market price, thus manufacturers quickly turned to HFCS as a cheaper substitute. Members of Congress from corn growing states embraced HFCS as a new market for corn and got generous campaign donations from ADM. Now the government’s push for corn ethanol has raised corn prices increasing not only food costs but also the price of HFCS so sugar is making a comeback. I seek out products that use sugar and the new “retro” Pepsi products actually taste better... like they used to before HFCS.
Europe doesn't have a huge corn lobby.
Crapola.
Nor a high tax on sugar ...
Pinylingadingdong.
White table sugar (sucrose), in small quantities, is beneficial, I believe. I’m basing that on sugar’s historical use as a medicine and an effective vehicle for other medications, and on my own personal experience. Nothing is better as a beverage, when sick with influenza, than slow sips of a sucrose-sweetened soda.
I remember my mom using corn syrup to make formula in the 50s. I figure that was different from the HFCS.
The body can not distinguish between sugar from cane or sugar from corn. The body reacts exactly the same way to all sugars, by releasing insulin to digest the sugar.
The story:
The U.S. government has devotedly jacked up American sugar prices far above world market prices since the close of the War of 1812. The sugar industry is one of America’s oldest infant industries — yet it dodders with the same uncompetitiveness that it showed during the second term of James Madison. Few cases better illustrate how trade policy can be completely immune to economic sense.
The U.S. imposed high tariffs on sugar in 1816 in order to placate the growers in the newly acquired Louisiana territory. In the 1820s, sugar plantation owners complained that growing sugar in the United States was “warring with nature” because the U.S. climate was unsuited to sugar production. Naturally, the plantation owners believed that all Americans should be conscripted into the “war.” Protectionists warned that if sugar tariffs were lifted, then the value of slaves working on the sugar plantations would collapse — thus causing a general fall in slave values throughout the South.
More:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp
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