The Blogspot SPAMMER Misses The Big Picture, Again
- From: Mark Thorson <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:37:21 -0700
Dave wrote:
In the future, food and drink manufacturers could reduce concerns
about HFCS by adding more EGCG, using less HFCS, or replacing the
syrup with alternatives such as regular table sugar, Ho and his
associates say. Funding for this study was provided by the Center
for Advanced Food Technology of Rutgers University.
Dave
You don't understand this issue at all, but that's not a
surprise. You don't have broad knowledge of health issues.
The only reason HFCS is used at all is that there are price
supports for sugar in the U.S. We pay about 2 to 4 times
the world price for sugar. High-fructose corn syrup is
exempt from the price supports, so most soft drinks are
made with HFCS rather than sucrose.
Some products, like candy, cannot substitute HFCS for
sucrose, so many candy companies have moved from the
U.S. to Canada or Mexico.
Unfortunately, we have two powerful lobbies maintaining
this situation. One is the original lobby, the beet
sugar manufacturers. They cannot compete against foreign
cane sugar. If price supports were removed, the beet
sugar industry would disappear.
The other is the HFCS manufacturers, led by Archer
Daniels Midland. They created this end-run around
the sugar price supports, and now that they've got
this lucrative HFCS business, they spend lavishly
on politicians to keep it.
The idea that soft drinks should have EGCG added
to ameliorate the harmful effects of HFCS is
ludicrous. The right solution is to repeal the
legislation which keeps this crap in the U.S.
food supply.
But, of course, you'll never hear that from the
blogspot spammer. His poorly researched articles
never disclose the big picture. He never includes
information beyond the narrow scope of the article
or press release he is summarizing.
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