Posted on 01/05/2017 6:11:13 AM PST by Red Badger
A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
March 22, 2010
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
The problem isn’t sugar, it’s HFCS...........
The end game is tax revenue as with cigarettes.
The welfare state has to be funded somehow.
What better way than to gin up a demon that ends up being taxed instead of banned as has happened with cigarettes?
And consider the end game with the ginned up “climate change” issue. They want “carbon taxes” like Canada is imposing in 2018.
Not particularly siding with the soda companies. Just opposed to bureaucrats telling me how to live. Y’know like, how the country was founded- telling far away bureaucrats what they could do with their rules and taxes.
I haven’t had a “Coke” in 30 years.
Tell that to our domestic sugar lobby, which ends up making cane or beet sugar twice as expensive as in the rest of the world. HFCS is popular due to its low cost. If sugar were less expensive, it would probably win out over HFCS.
CC
Not just probably, it would.
Mexico does not allow HFCS to be used in their soft drinks, only sugar. You can buy imported Coke products in Big Lots and other places that have NO HFCS in them.
If the soft drink industry was smart, they would market REAL SUGAR soft drinks along side the HFCS ones. Let the public decide.......................
Don’t forget playing with lawn darts.
I’ve had the Mexican Coca Cola. There is a difference in taste. Oddly enough, Coke introduced HFCS at the same time it rolled out “new coke”. Conspiracy theory stuff? Maybe.
CC
I’ll pencil that in for right before bed, so it’s nice and dark...
CC
>> The problem isn’t sugar, it’s HFCS...........
Which problem are you referring to? Hopefully not carbohydrates as related to diabetes.
No Conspiracy necessary. It was a cost saving/profit boosting measure and that’s all....................
Don't run with scissors. Throw them instead...................
C’mon, anyone who is not a complete moron knows that overuse of such beverages is not good for you, and that a moderate amount of them is seldom a problem.
I think you have defined the problem..................
Pizza?!?! The pizza-eating section will be out in the alley. We can't allow the tempting aroma to lure people to the artery-clogging cheese and grease. You want to come inside? Order a salad!
I took three of my kids to Mexico for a wedding a decade ago, and they told me excitedly, "They have Coke in pretty glass bottles." And they said it tasted better, too. When we got back, they found out where to buy "MexiCoke" here, and that became the only kind we bought from then on. I didn't realize it was a cane sugar vs. corn syrup issue.
Nobody drinks a lot of soda here, but when we do, MexiCoke rules. (So do enchiladas sold from a roadside stand, steamed in corn leaves, but we haven't been able to import those yet.)
Wish Coke would go back to sugar instead of the corn syrup. That’s why I buy the stuff from Mexico. It is real sugar. But to these food nazis I say, “Leave my Coke alone!” I am a big boy now and if I want to drink it, so be it. Mind your own business.
The problem is that the American Corn lobby and the American Sugar Lobby have death grips on the Congress, both Republican and Democrat. The Corn Lobby promotes HFCS and the Sugar Lobby keeps foreign sugar out of our market, therefore keeping domestic sugar prices high, so that the HFCS is used in the soft drinks instead of sugar.
If we paid the WORLD MARKET PRICE for sugar, it would be about half of what we pay in stores...................
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