On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:28:45 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
> aem wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 6, 3:05 pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>>> In the past week I've seen an ad a couple of times geared towards warding
>>> off the anti-HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) sentiment in foods. I finally
>>> made note of the URL: http://www.sweetsurprise.com/ From that site there's
>>> a link towww.HFCSfacts.com
>>>
>>> They're obviously starting to feel a pinch in consumer rejection of HFCS
>>> since they're running ads to tell us IT'S MADE FROM CORN! 
>>>
>> Fight back? Against what? They have never ever before made as much
>> as they're making right now. Who should be fighting back are those
>> who want them to grow corn to eat, not to be made into HFCS and not to
>> be made into ethanol. -aem
>
> It's sugar price supports which make U.S. sugar
> 2X to 4X the world price. We would not have a domestic
> beet sugar industry without these price supports,
> and only a small cane sugar industry (mostly in P.R.).
>
> Sugar price supports have decimated the U.S. candy
> industry, with most of it moving to Canada and Mexico.
>
> You can't use HFCS to make most forms of candy, because
> it doesn't easily set up into a solid, unlike sucrose.
> However, HFCS is perfectly adaptable to liquid products
> like soda, so we have this weird situation in which
> sucrose is price-controlled at very high prices, but
> a new product (HFCS) makes an end-run around the price
> controls for the big cola companies. You have major
> interests supporting the continuation of price supports,
> and then other interests which support the loophole.
>
> Who gets screwed is the U.S. small- to mid-size candy
> manufacturers, and all U.S. candy manufacturers are
> small- to mid-size manufacturers compared to the cola
> companies.
and to a lesser extent, individual consumers who buy sugar. it's kind of a
classic scam; rip off millions of people for just a few cents, and they
won't really notice enough to mind. but for the folks collecting those
cents, it's pretty good money.
your pal,
blake