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Default Corn Farmers Fight Back?

Arri London wrote:
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> Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> > Arri London > wrote:
> >
> > > Apparently one species of hummingbird, black-chinned (which are the most
> > > common at our feeder), prefer *beet* sugar:
> > >
> > > http://ortegobirds.com/articles/humm...-hummingbirds/
> > >
> > > and dislike HFCS.

> >
> > Pepsi is working on a new, low-cost species of hummingbird to fix
> > that problem.
> >
> > =-sw

>
> LOL. Sadly enough...wouldn't put it past them.


Except that Pepsi is a victim of the sugar racket,
not one of its perpetrators. They have to buy HFCS
because U.S. price controls make sucrose so expensive.
Pepsi and the other soft drink manufacturers would
love to have these price controls lifted.