In the 1970’s the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture made a bold — though shortsighted – stroke when he enabled the development of a compound called High Fructose Corn Syrup. The American farmer had lost a great deal of profit due to overseas imports, and the U.S. government was therefore charged with coming up with a more profitable way for farmers to use their corn surplus. At the same time, groundswell pressure from consumers was rampant to keep grocery prices affordable.
With that great American crop, corn, threatened, so was the livelihood of our all-American corn farmers. Enter High Fructose Corn Syrup – the new sweetener that would drive up demand for corn and provide a super cheap new form of sweetener for packaged foods, breads, cereals, sodas, spaghetti sauce, ketchup – you name it, HFCS would be in it. The future looked sweet indeed.
More stable than sugar against the disintegrating elements (such as moisture), foods with High Fructose Corn Syrup can literally travel thousands of miles and sit on the shelf of your local convenience store forever and (almost) never go bad. Cheaper ingredients meant cheaper groceries for the good American consumer. A win- win situation, it seemed.
Because of the unusually long shelf life of HFCS, store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies, mixes, breads, sodas, juices, tomato sauce and all of the rest could be sold with practically no expiration date. HFCS, despite misleading labels that read “all natural,†is an ENTIRELY man-made substance. It’s almost indestructible. Like Styrofoam, eternal and immortal.
The pornographic underbelly of all this (and there always is one, it seems, where money and government and conflicting desires come into play) is that in laboratory tests High Fructose Corn Syrup causes male rats to never fully develop their testicles. And High Fructose Corn Syrup also causes the hearts of female rats to expand until they burst. Exit pornography, enter horror flick.
But is this a rat tragic story or a human tragedy? Well, hold into your seats because the seemingly innocuous little sweet nothings that Secretary Butz so gracefully introduced to our bellies in the seventies are now linked to obesity, diabetes, and yes, even cirrhosis of the liver. And as if the above were not enough, there is also some preliminary evidence that HFCS is carcinogenic.
In his groundbreaking book FatLand, Greg Critser breaks down exactly how HFCS is metabolized by the human body. In short, because our bodies have absolutely no way of understanding this highly engineered substance…they convert it into storage material and chuck it away…hence we are fattened up.
The explanation goes like this: glucose molecules, which are the building blocks of sucrose, can be metabolized (used, eaten) by any and every cell in the human body. This is not so with Fructose. It has to be metabolized through the liver. Hence, your liver ends up releasing triglycerides into your bloodstream and generally has trouble dealing with this weird substance. Fructose, which used to be advised for diabetics because it did not stimulate insulin production, really does appear to do a lot of fancy footwork with enzymes and other hormones, too. It does not allow the release of the hormone that tells the brain you are full. Hence, you overeat.
Now, what about the HFCS advocates who maintain that High Fructose Corn Syrup really is an “all-natural ingredient†because, they say, it is made from corn and fructose is the sugar naturally occurring in fruit? Well, wine and isopropyl alcohol both contain alcohol. However, the rubbing stuff for cotton balls should never go in your wineglass. Get it?
Let’s look a little more closely at how this stuff is made. Saying that HFCS is an all- natural substance is like saying two celebrities naturally bumped into each other and fell in love – when more often their PR agents set them up. HFCS is set up as follows: Corn starch is boiled, distilled, and generally messed with until you get a corn syrup with a big jacked-up amount of fructose…HFCS could have as little as 45% fructose or as much as 85%…the “hard stuffâ€â€¦
So, the absolutely spine-tingling fact is that shortly after the 1970s, and especially throughout the 1980s, HFCS began to replace sucrose (table sugar, cane sugar, or beet sugar) in almost everything. This means that for the last 25 years — a lifetime for some reading this — this jacked-up, messed up “all-natural†toxic sweetener has been in all of our foods as we developed into the fat ADD-riddled little monsters that we are.
Too often we as consumers are under the spell of the idea that our health depends on our own free will. That is, what we do or do not do for ourselves makes all the difference in our health. Watching a new commercial for Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers on TV, I am struck by how easy, offhand and rampant this assumption is. If only each American could do their part to reverse the obesity epidemic through personal self-control and initiative? And yet this is not entirely true. What we don’t know can hurt us.
I heard recently the claim that health depends less on how we take care of ourselves than how we take care of each-other. This speaks directly to the need for more accurate public health and nutrition information and corporate responsibility. The Land of the free? I don’t know. Freedom from accurate information, freedom from healthy food…these do not really seem like freedoms at all.
Watching the food channel, I recently heard that the most delicious pork comes from Spain, where the swine are fattened up on an all-corn diet. This little tidbit reminded me of we Americans. Surely Americans are often enough referred to as pigs, but who knew we held so much in common with this lowly animal? It seems we and they are being fattened up for some strange slaughter yet to come.
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As a resident of Iowa I was completely unaware of this. I drive by BOTH of the ADM HFCS plants on a regular basis. I’m not sure I even want to get that close to them any more.
[...] From a Sprol.com report on HFCS production: “I heard recently the claim that health depends less on how we take care of ourselves than how we take care of each-other.” 21st Nov | [...]
from personal exp. hfcs causes my blood sugar to grow, no insulin is released . once insulin is injected, blood sugar returns to normal. avoidance of hfcs blood sugar regulates itself . hfcs is in everything you must read all labels. and be free of type 2 diabetes
I get terrible nerve spasms from artificial sweeteners (hfcs, & others). Lasix gave me gout which was soon followed by nerve spasms from other blood pressure medications and then artificial sweeteners. I am now getting massage and taking herbals to keep my bp under control. It is difficult to avoid all hfcs but I have to do it. ER
I periodically get horrible charlyhorses in my back, under my wings. They cripple me and last 2-4 days. It has been going on for 35 years and I think it is caused by HFCS along with a few other wonderful items in our food chain. How can we get this toxic stuff off the shelves?
[...] The explanation goes like this: glucose molecules, which are the building blocks of sucrose, can be metabolized (used, eaten) by any and every cell in the human body. This is not so with Fructose. It has to be metabolized through the liver. Hence, your liver ends up releasing triglycerides into your bloodstream and generally has trouble dealing with this weird substance. Fructose, which used to be advised for diabetics because it did not stimulate insulin production, really does appear to do a lot of fancy footwork with enzymes and other hormones, too. It does not allow the release of the hormone that tells the brain you are full. Hence, you overeat. [Link] [...]
[...] High Fructose Corn SyrupIn the 1970s the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture made a bold though shortsighted stroke when he enabled the development of a compound called High… [...]
Get off high fructose corn syrup and see how much better you feel. Just give it up for six weeks and you’ll be amazed about how good you feel. Check the labels of everything. I would avoid all processed foods even if it says “corn syrup” because it may be “high fructose corn syrup.” If enough people protest and DON’T BUY poison, then the food industry will change. The processed food industry does not care about your health and well-being–they care only about profits. Drink fresh lemonade with stevia and/or maple syrup to get off cold drinks. Cold drinks (sweetened and artificially sweetened) should have a skull and cross bones on the label.
Let’s get off high fructose corn syrup! Check out my challenge to everyone on this page: http://windalestudios.com/fat_loss_Houston.html
Good luck with your health.
Zebe
Hi from Australia,
What I find amusing is the way we are becoming a nation of piggies too. Our foods are starting to sneak in the good old HFCS… Hard enough to buy decent health food here without having to have any that WAS good now contain lovely yummy HFCS!!! My 13 year old son is a very active and fit boy BUT man! Do NOT ever give him anything containing corn syrup of any type! He turns into a veritable monster of violent anger and crankiness…. he himself now realises this is what it does to him and he now often looks for that ingredient on the label. Sadly it can be disguised as a different name or totally ommitted from the list. (Hence the times he goes nuts, coz we had no idea!) Shopping used to be fun.. now I have to take my time and effort and it has become a chore.
Good luck to all who find good food!
Hi from Grants Pass, Oregon
I, too, are reading all the labels. Have to make my own cranberry sauce from berries…
Has anyone heard of any environmental group willing to fight the government and the corn lobby to protect US? We have now made an agreement to import HFCS into Mexico, so that Mexico can import more sugar into the US – Why? Because of the high tariff we put on imported sugar. It’s a crazy world when our own government is making us sick!
Potassium is what you need.
Try and make your own juices,soda and bread.Carbonated lemonade with a pinch of salt tastes real good.SAY NO TO HFCS
I know about high-fructose corn syrup in sodas and most juice drinks. I have recently found it in cereals (including all those “good-for-you cereals like corn flakes, Special K, and Mini-Wheats), catsups, tomato soups, PICKLES (yes, pickles), diet bars of all kinds, pasta sauces, many crackers (like those Wheat Thins and Ritz, as well as generic equivalents), sweetened nuts, and so many other foods. Between this and the MSG hidden in foods, it’s no wonder that we are all becoming big fat tubs of lard. The “food(?)” is designed to make you fat.
At the rate we are going, it won’t be long before the government bans real sugar. You won’t be able to find any sugar in the store, except for that poison high-fructose corn syrup, thus effectively taking away our freedom to choose. Already they ban Stevia from being used as a sweetener (it is legally a dietary supplement), effectively keeping our sodas poison. (I don’t like Aspartame–if anything, it’s even worse). When we start seeing laws that ban sale of real sugar or natural sources of sugar, we know that our government is trying to get us all on drugs. Because anyone who consumes enough high-fructose corn syrup is going to need statins, blood pressure medication, and diabetes drugs before long.
I, for one, will not buy any food with high-fructose corn syrup or aspartame in it. While I still can, I make my own cookies after finding out that most store-bought ones have high-fructose corn syrup (I use real sugar and organic ingredients so that at least all they have is sucrose, fat, and carbs and no high-fructose corn syrup or aspartame). Even with candy, you expect to find sugar in large doses–I have found that the caramel candies of all kinds have high-fructose corn syrup. And I haven’t bought any Pop-Tarts since I found that they all have this poison in the filling (I don’t really care about the sugar, but high-fructose corn syrup I have tossed since finding out that it is designed to make you fat last year).
What in the world is going on? This stuff is in everything! Why do the food producers think we need to have everything over-sweetened. HFCS is toxic. It wouldn’t surpise me if they link this toxic goop with our high rates of ADD and autism in children. HFCS and hydrogenated oils are silent killers and should be banned out-right!
Fuck all of you. I eat and drink the stuff all the time and have no health problems. Its delicious and affordable and you guys are trying to make connections that dont exist.
Last year I went through a separtion with my husband and I was very depressed. My doctor prescribed me some medication which lead me to gain about 30 pounds in less than year. Since then, my husband and I worked out our differences, I took myself off of that medication and got serious about my weight. I watched an oprah show one day that had my new god, Dr. Oz, and he went into detail about high fructose corn syrup and other artifical sweeteners and how bad and very fattening they are. I since have completely eliminated HFCS from my diet. I check every label, and I don’t eat out a lot because I’m afraid of not knowing what can be in my food. I have successfully lost 32 pounds in about 6-7 months mainly from avoiding HFCS and some exercise. I am so happy to have been educated on this, what I call poison, it has really made a huge difference in my life, both physically and mentally. I was very glad to find this website of yours to confirm my knowledge. Thank you.
Gail Conneely
Thanks for the info. Being older, I did notice the change in the tatse
when soft drink folks used fructose corn syrup (high-I’m not sure).
It just left a sucky after feeling…never got used to it..like the
the bod was mad that someone attempted to fool it.
You might not notice the change right away. If you eat high fructose corn syrup, you might not get sick on it today or next month. But just wait about 10 or 20 years! That’s what the drug companies are counting on. Chances are good that 20 years from now you are going to see a rise in blood pressure, your cholesterol will go up, you might be developing diabetes, and you will be getting fat. And your doctor will be happy to prescribe medicine to take care of these symptoms. You probably will not find the connection.
As for which is worse, aspartame is even worse. That crap will ruin your brain. The aspartic acid in aspartame will cause the neurons to fire to death. Then the methanol that holds it together will also ruin your brain, along with your liver. This, and its cousin Neotame, is possibly the worst sweetener on the market.
I think we should just stick to sugar. If you have diabetes or want a no-calorie sweetener, Stevia is the best choice (too bad it hasn’t been approved for use in processed foods). Xylitol is also good: that is a sugar alcohol that is good for diabetics and those worried about tooth decay. Organic unprocessed sugar is also a good choice. All are better than high fructose corn syrup; anything is better than that aspartame and Neotame poison.
I have been trying to eliminate hfcs from my family’s diet, but how do you know? I bought a certain peanut butter because it was the only one that listed sugar not hfcs. Now they all say sugar. I have called the told free number for their product info and get recordings. Sent email and get gov’t web sites referalls. They say if it says sugar it should be beet or cane. I said “should be or is” but no comments. I also work for a chemical company and we ship hazards chemicals. At our safety seminars we hear from the anhydros ammonia people(one of the worst chemicals shipped) that they cannot put a poison sticker on the railroad car because the farming industry won’t allow it. They have a lot of clout.
The formula for Coca Cola is not the same throughout the world. Coke in the US has HFCS, but in Europe they use real sugar(most likely beet derived). It tastes way different being not as sweet and less acidic, and I’m sad to say Euro Coke still doesn’t taste as good as good old toxic American Coke. Funny thing is that Euro Coke is probably actually what Coke is supposed to taste like.
I firmly believe the FDA is “sleeping” with the corn industry. HFCS causes oue epidemic non-alcoholic fatty liver, obesity, diabetes and scary Autism rates of 1 out of 94 infants born in 2007. Our brains and bodies are being poisioned!!!! HFCS is a TOXIN. I have banned this artificial toxin from my family and everyone who will listen hears how terrible it is. I have written Coca-cola, Kelloggs, Kraft, the FDA and the Corn Syrup Association. All I hear is excuses and lies. They all believe the consumer is an idiot. I say we unite and write these food producers and the FDA as much as possible. At least I KNOW what sugar is. I’m sad that I have eaten this toxin since I was a little girl in the 70′s. They are killing us and our babies. I only hope ethanol makes corn sources too expensive!!!! God help all Americans.
Yes, I hope that high fructose corn syrup becomes too expensive to be cost effective. I also hope for the price of real cane sugar to crash, bottoming out at less than a quarter of that of high fructose corn syrup. Not only that, but I hope the next president has zero tolerance for the FDA and gives them zero funds to work with–after all, they have created negative value by banning Stevia and allowing poisons to be put in our food without our knowledge.
What’s even worse is the aspartame and Neotame that they are putting in the food–worse than high fructose corn syrup. Aspartame is the worst food additive ever–until Neotame, which is even worse. And yet the FDA is too worried about the slight fertility problem (?) associated with Stevia to allow it on the market (and that is very questionable about how they even came up with that. Any regulators that will allow high fructose corn syrup, monosodium glutamate in forms that are disguised, and aspartame and yet will not allow Stevia is not worth my tax dollars.
[...] Sunday, May 6th, 2007 in cusine, health This morning I felt a little nauseated and took to an old remedy that mariners the world around know well and rely on. Ginger root. Any excuse to head to the grocery store to peruse the unique beverages section I’m in. I’m not a big of high fructose corn syrup so I try to opt for drinks without it. This trend seems to be catching on, so maybe with time you’ll be able to be exploited through the wonders of advertising here too. With food in general I feel the fewer ingredients the better; and while its nice to get food without preservatives as well, it’s not always practical. I’ll also try to avoid foods with added coloring and artificial flavors. I’m not completely crazy and do fall off the wagon from time to time, but when you can find a cache of good mostly natural sodas I get giddy inside. [...]
We do a lot of research into exercise performance enhancement and achieving optimum health. In Australia, within the last few years our obesity level has began to increase to the same extent as the USA. We have come across the same conclusions as much of your readers here. Over the years Australian food companies have been slowly overtaken by larger overseas companies. In the past Australian food products contained mainly cane sugar which is a big industry in Australia. But with the increasing imports and ownership by overseas companies you will now find a lot of foods, like the USA contain HFCS. But in Australia the food labeling is such that you do not have to name what type of sugar it is, you only have to state the amount of sugar. This can make it very hard to determine if a product uses sugar from cane or that it is HFCS.
In our research we found it very disturbing that HFCS is made from genetically modified corn. Monsanto, the main producer of corn in the USA even admitted it found unknown proteins in its GMO corn. This corn is also used for feed for farmed animals and has been found to cause infertility and other health problems. We are now consuming this HFCS from GMO corn in almost all processed foods and fast foods. The hamburger buns of McDonalds and other fast food places, soft drinks, breakfast cerials, cakes, chocolate bars even health bars like museli bars and protein bars.
Is it a coincidence that obesity in Australia, like the USA has risen in conjunction with the introduction of these foods. There are a lot of research studies that have proven when normal sugar (sucrose) is consumed, ie; 50% glucose, 50% fructose, the glucose component gets used directly by the body and gets converted to glycogen while the fructose component gets converted to fatty acids and is stored.
Glucose triggers insulin and other hormones which function to help transport nutrients into our cells to be used for energy and activate brain chemicals to supress hunger. Fructose does not do this, so if most of our foods are being replaced with fructose instead of glucose, even though our calorie intake may be the same, more calories will be directed towards fat stores thus causing an energy decrease to our working body which then sends signals to increase nutrition intake to make up the difference. The more of these foods we eat the worse we will get.
That’s why we recommend to eat whole foods and take supplements that do not contain HFCS within the diets that we subscribe. Keep it simple and avoid temptation from takeaway foods.
What can we do about HFCS?…… Spread the word to everyone you speak to in conversation and let them know how bad HFCS is and the science behind why it is so bad. It will take time but eventially the truth will come out. HFCS is the problem behind increasing obesity and it should be banned. But like smoking, will it?…… the jury awaits!
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The most insidious users of HFCS, in my opinion, are those manufacturers who add it to the products they are marketing as ‘healthy’ to a very gullible public. I live in Los Angeles and have a kid so there are endless birthday parties to attend and what do the ‘health conscious, green minded, liberal’ (hey, I’m one of those too so no offense meant) parents of the birthday kids all serve up for the other parents… Hansen’s soda because it LOOKS healthy. What’s one of the main ingredients? HFCS. I have to laugh because almost without fail, that’s all there is in the cooler. They would never been seen dead serving up those unhealthy drinks like Coke and Pepsi (which has the same amount of HFCS in them anyway)!!
Ha ha
Oh, yes, I almost forgot…
It’s marketed as “Hansen’s NATURAL soda”.
They really do think that consumers are stupid. Unfortunately, most consumers blindly trust the FDA who should have put a stop to this crap back in the 70s. American consumers… wake up and smell the special interests, the corporate/government back scratching and back handers – the government is NOT interested in your health and wellbeing.
Knowing first-hand about the consequences of ingesting HFCS ( I am extremely allergic to it), I have just constructed a site on the web listing prepared foods that do NOT contain HFCS.
http://no-hfcs.tripod.com
If you have additional foods that should be placed on the site, please email me. My address can be found on the site.
Thanks.
Hi. This is what I just sent on to Hansens folks. How offensive. To think they label their sodas all-natural, when they’re loaded with high fructose corn shite! I suggest EVERYONE send Hansens a comment through this webpage letting them know what we think of their HFCS BS.
[...] For a great, different perspective (literally) on HFCS? Check out this Sprol post (I love this guy. He gets of my tags for the thinking blogger meme). [...]
I once bought a bag or plain short grained rice that listed corn syrup as an ingredient. Corn syrup in rice????? What in the world for? That was 6 years ago and since then I have tried to avoid corn syrup at all costs. It’s actually a great way to eat healthy because corn syrup is usually a sign of low quality food. Great article!
[...] Excerpts from another article on High Fructose Corn Syrup. Because of the unusually long shelf life of HFCS, store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies, mixes, breads, sodas, juices, tomato sauce and all of the rest could be sold with practically no expiration date. HFCS, despite misleading labels that read “all natural,†is an ENTIRELY man-made substance. It’s almost indestructible. Like Styrofoam, eternal and immortal. So, the absolutely spine-tingling fact is that shortly after the 1970s, and especially throughout the 1980s, HFCS began to replace sucrose (table sugar, cane sugar, or beet sugar) in almost everything. This means that for the last 25 years — a lifetime for some reading this — this jacked-up, messed up “all-natural†toxic sweetener has been in all of our foods as we developed into the fat ADD-riddled little monsters that we are. In laboratory tests High Fructose Corn Syrup causes male rats to never fully develop their testicles. And High Fructose Corn Syrup also causes the hearts of female rats to expand until they burst. Stumble it! [...]
[...] Excerpts from another article on High Fructose Corn Syrup. Because of the unusually long shelf life of HFCS, store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies, mixes, breads, sodas, juices, tomato sauce and all of the rest could be sold with practically no expiration date. HFCS, despite misleading labels that read [...]
[...] High Fructose Corn Syrup HFCS, how it’s made and how it affects your health, plus other links. [...]
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[...] The commercials seemingly respond to the education of the American consumer about the dangers of high fructose corn syrup. In short, it’s a non-natural substance that the body cannot recognize and thereby cannot properly breakdown. Despite being marketed as having the same caloric content of sugar, it doesn’t have the same chemical make-up and effects on the body. Seemingly everything but the corn lobby and FDA extol its potential for harmfulness. Food manufacturers love the substance for two very important reasons: it extends the shelf life of foods and markedly cheaper than sugar and other natural sweeteners. Have you ready your labels lately? Many foods from whole grain bread, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, and etc from many major brands contain high fructose corn syrup. Yes, high fructose corn syrup is derived from corn, but it’s no more natural than any other engineered substance as it is entirely man-made. Products containing high fructose corn syrup technically should not be allowed to be labeled ‘natural.’ 7-up sodas initially tried to label their sodas as natural, but eventually had to change the marketing to say ‘natural flavors’ because of the inclusion of high fructose corn syrup. You can read more about the history and damages of high fructose corn syrup here. [...]
[...] Right now, more food and beverages are using high fructose corn syrup as a sugar substitute. The manufacturers claimed that the corn syrup is natural. True, it might be more natural than aspartame or saccharin. But I personally will try to eat less products with corn syrup in it, since researches are still ongoing and showing the corn syrup bad effects for our health. http://www.sprol.com/?p=236 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1841910,00.html http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-fructose-corn-syrup/AN01588 Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Sweetener Controversy GrowsCorny propaganda [...]
[...] For an intriguing article accompanied by photos of big industry related to the corn industry from the website SPROL: http://www.sprol.com/?p=236 [...]
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Not related to the HFCS discussion, but you might want to check your map of Iowa – graphic #4 from the top. Iowa City is SOUTH of Cedar Rapids, and Marion is directly north, almost a suburb.
You’ve got some good information here, but that (very easily researched and corrected) mistake makes me wonder about the credibility of the whole article.
http://cardhouse.com/berk/highfructose.htm
Comment to An Iowan about the locations of Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Marion. The map is a Google earth image that is looking kind of south south west. The locations of the cities are correct if you notice the compass in the lower right corner you can see that Cedar Rapids is in fact directly north of Iowa City.
Also another reason to stay away from high fructose corn syrup is it comes from GMO, genetically modified corn and still no labeling is required. In order to genetically modify bacteria and viruses are used to invade the cells. The pesticide companies now manipulate the seeds so that round up ready corn is then sprayed with their pesticide. stay away from high fructose corn syrup
WE ARE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE AMERICANS MEXICANS CANADIANS AND ALL THE WORLD MONSANTO IS ANTICHRIST SO IS OUR LEADERS IS WHY JFKENNEDY DIED SLUTTERED LIKE AN ANIMAL BECAUSE HE INTEDED TO TELL ALL OF US AMERICANS WE WOULD BE USED LIKE GUINI PIGS IN A LAB CALLED EARTH WITH NOT ONLY CORN SYRUP BUT CHEMTRAILS AND THE MOST AFFECTED ARE THE IGNORANT PEOPLE THE IMMIGRANTS COMING HERE. WHY ALLOW IMMIGRATION TO JUST KILL THEM SLOWLY AND TURN THEM INTO FAT LARD BAGS WITH FRIED BRAINS? ASPARTIME AND OTHER POISONS IN WATER LIKE FLUORIDE MERCURIY IN WATER WE DEMAND JUSTICE A POGROM TO END THE EVIL MONSANTO AND THE COCA COLA COULD GET RID OF ITS ACID RAIN POISON COLAS AND DRINKS AND THIS EVIL DEMONIC ENTITIES WOULD GO TO HELL IF ALL OF US FUCKED THEM UP BY NOT BUYING A SINGLE SODA! WAKE UP WE HAVE THE POWER BUY FIGI WATER AND STOP THE CONSUMPTION OF POISONS AND IF YOUR CHILDREN DEMAND SODAS GIVE THEM A SPANKING AND TEACH THEM GOOD FOODS IT WILL SAVE THEIR LIFE OR IGNORE MY LETTER AND WATCH YOUR FAMILY FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES DIE ONE BY ONE. lETS FUCK THE SODA CORN SOY CANOLA POISONS AND LETS TELL THE WORLD WE THE PEOPLE NOT THE ROTTEN MAD DOGS LIVING IN CONGRESS WHO HAVE SOLD US ALL OUT THAT IT IS ENOUGH THEIR DEMISE IS COMING. TRUEST IN JESUS ALLOW ONLY YOUR INTUITION TO TELL YOU IF ALL YOU EAT IS JUST AND WRITEOUS YOU WILL HAVE THE ANSWER IN A MINUTE DO NOT BE A FOOL IGNORANT BASTARD ALONG WITH THE EVIL EMPIRE GREEDY CORPORATIONS DOWN WITH THEM ALL DO NOT BUY THEIR FOODS! UNITE TO FIGHT THIS EVIL UPON US OR WE WILL BE STERIL AND DEATH IN NOT TIME JUST WAIT AND DO NOTHING AND JUST SEE.
just say no to all the junk foods and seek organic foods fruits and vegetables do not buy milk or poisoned meats and stop the killing of animals and their poisons too feeking animals monsanto foods are also bad for us when we eat their meats that are toxic we get toxic their aim is to kill us all if God forbid they give us some poison that works with the roundup poisons we already eat in corn sodas and artificial sweetners we will die by the billions by our own hand because they are not putting the food in our mouths we are doing it ourselves. do not be deceived fight back by not eating certain foods how hard can that be the coca cola industry will either break or make clean water drinks with health stuff in it natural stuff and not poisons wake up. feed not the demons and tell them we are not ginie pigs any longer.
This original article was posted years ago.
What is the current status of label requirements in the USA?
If everybody stops eating corn syrup and HFCS then they will finally have to eat all their fruits and vegetables.
If HFCS is not produced then all the feilds of the Unedible Corn Strains will finally become endangered. The will also have to use less pesticides on the land.
The Unedible Corn now grown could be replaced with BEETS to make Beet Sugar. Beets grow in the same climate. The one thing the farmers will have to do is patrol the edges of the feilds for woodchucks that will eat the beets.
If HFCS is not produced then all those Corn Syrup Tank Cars and Tankers will have to be used for other products.
Railroads and Truckers used to haul a lot of beets and beet sugar decades ago.
Original Coca-Cola Syrup did not have an acidic bite like the soft drink.
Currently produced Carbonated Beverages are addictive and impare judgement just as much as any drug. The highs are too high and lows are too low. Bi-Polar or high consumption of carbonated beverages, how can we tell the difference?
Indeed all the fast food hamburger buns contain HFCS, needless to say no more hamberger from the hamberger stands. All the Hamburger buns sold at supermarkets contain HFCS as well. I however can go to the Publix Supermarket anf purchased fresh baked French Hamburger buns HFCS and Corn Syrup free!!!! These Fast Food retuarants could demand HFCS free buns yet they will not. Even the Milkshakes, pancakes, sausages, sauces other breads at the Fast Food establishements are full of either HFCS or CS.
The government talks about a pop tax, they have not realized the HFCS in pop is also in most of the food supply, they need a HFCS tax.
Pepsi Throwback, Mountain Dew Throwback and Hritage Dr. Pepper is all made with natural surgar.
It was just recently I discovered HFCS in bread, now we purchase store baked or Nature’s own breads all HFCS free. THe Kroger hamburger buns that are stored baked contains HFCS…
HFCS fattens the body of the consumer and the bank accounts of Wall Street.
I cannoth fathon than HFCS in many ice creams such as Mayfield, Blue Bell, Popside, Klondike, Fat Boys even Low Faty Boys as well.
Could you imagine that corn is in ice cream… YUK!!!!!!!!
If anyone cares to dig into U.S. food industry realities, it becomes clear that food is never considered as a product of health issues, but only as a source of financial gain, the same as oil, steel, water, and anything produced by for-profit industry, including military weapons, buildings, and even education systems.
For-profit is the key to every industrial decision. period. GMO-enhanced production is Only for the higher profit it yields, and never regarding any harmful effects, even those harms that will likely follow after years of producing the GMO-altered crops, animals, and other biological creatures.
Bankers fund, and control industry. Bankers decide what industry to allow, and what industry will die-off. Natural foods, natural substances, natural products cannot be market-controlled by bankers, using such controls as patents and twisted legal laws that cut natural product producers out of the market. Bankers are greedy, and to make their greed pay the highest profit, they stoop to the lowest levels of human depravity to make the biggest ‘killings.’
HFCS fall directly into the bankers’ panacea of exploited products. Its corn crop production is regulated by their government pawns, and its manufacturing process is controlled by the cost and complexity of the factories and chemical process that produces it. No small farm can afford to buy the equipment, and the massive storage and handling systems used to deliver HFCS to gigantic food production plants cannot be controlled by any small business.
HFCS is a complete sell-out by banker-controlled government agencies, elected politicians, and food safety regulators, like the FDA. Bankers own FDA members and directors. The FDA takes all of its orders for food safety from bankers. Maybe not directly, but from bankers’ industry executives. Those persons the bankers assign as care-takers of their food-production businesses. Businesses such as Kellogg, Kraft, Schmucker, Post, General Mills, ConAgra Foods, and others. These all are finances and controlled by bankers.
If 100 Million Americans would create a food co-op, and if every member would Not buy ANY product from each of the above group of banker-controlled businesses, then the bankers would listen to serious health-wise advice about what wholesome food actually is, and is not.
But, will 100,000,000 Americans EACH actually NOT buy ANY product manufactured by ALL the businesses owned and controlled by bankers?
The Internet would allow this, except that the bankers are now demanding that the Internet be closed down to any and all who dare expose their efforts to control manufacturing based on profits, NOT health and safety.
The Internet is a very dangerous weapon of information that can and does hurt bankers’ profits. Bankers own and control many politicians, government agencies that control Internet use and access, and that are now, January 27, 2010, working to shut down Internet use and access for some forms of information, and users with intentions to expose banker and government corruption.
Another factor that promotes HFCS production is the United Nations, another banker-owned governmental body. That groups’ purpose is to eventually, and very, very soon, eliminate much of Earth’s population, using disguises such as the W.H.O., now masked as a health-promotion agency. Remember the Medical Profession’s Hippocratic Oath? It states that a doctor will use ALL the skills of medicine he has gained to promote and heal Human Life. With both government-enforced pre-birth murdering, and murdering people who want to kill themselves for whatever reason, those doctors once ONLY using medicine for Human health are now required by law to use their skills for murder.
Think about it. Research it. Then get angry, America. You will die if you don’t. And, even if you do, but don’t take action to stop the bankers.