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The reason that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has become such a dominsant factor in the US diet can be traced directly to politics and corporate welfare. Since 1816, the sugar industry has owned enough politicians to ensure that they gained a protectionist position regarding imports of sugar, and they also receive subsidies in the billions of dollars per year. These things have allowed the American sugar industry to keep the price of sugar much higher than the average retail price of sugar paid by the rest of the world. They get to charge us more, and our tax dollars make it easy for them to take us to the cleaners, both coming and going.
What's that you say about Free Trade and the Global Market? Get serious. Those are political slogans, not facts!
In a rare moment of serving the American people, Congress dropped the sugar quotas in June of 1974. Reagan re-instated the idea of sugar import quotas in May of 1982. I'm not taking a partisan stand here, because both Democrats and Republicans have sold out the American people on this topic.
On November 6, 1984, the two largest soft drink manufacturers in the US, CocaCola and Pepsi, made public the fact that they weren't going to take it any more. They were going to replace the artificially high priced sucrose by HCFS in the US. In other countries, where the price of sucrose was more reasonable, such steps weren't necessary. But they weren't going to become victims of the crazy US corporate welfare schemes in favor of the sugar industry.
Over time, they were joined by many, if not most, of the other US manufacturers that used sucrose in their products. In one sense, you can't blame them. On the other hand, look around. In my opinion, the use of HCFS is an important factor in the overweight/obesity crisis that we are facing in America today. I realize that there are indeed other factors, but the preponderance of HCFS is certainly one of them - an important one. I realize that a one-to-one correspondence between the consumption of HFCS and the frequency in obesity in the US, from 1966 to the present, is not a proof of causality. But do you really believe it's just a coincidence?
To see some of the many health issues impacted by HFCS, go to:
High Fructose Corn Syrup - Recipe for Disaster
In order to understand how your tax dollars at work have helped to create the High Fructose Corn Syrup problem, you may want to visit these references:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp
And the candy makers want to help get more subsidies (paid by taxpayers) in order to lower their sugar costs:
http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_04/b4018072.htm
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