Corn Refiners want to rename "High Fructose Corn Syrup" to "Corn Sugar"

tater · 09-14-10, 03:38 PM

True, but it's getting bad press. Articles written by writers who don't even know what a sugar is, read by people who don;t know what a sugar is. The same press that continues to present patent nonsense like the (utter non-existent, and in fact fraudulent) claim that mercury was related to autism.

The guys making the stuff of course are perfectly happy with the average person consuming 10s of gallons of soda a year (hundreds?), mind you, but I don't blame them, I blame the people drinking the stuff.

Having the name change on the label is not a problem, because people who know what the different sugars actually are, and how they work, will not have a problem, and the others are not well enough informed for me to care much about them getting "tricked" by a change. Again, if they cannot explain the difference extemporaneously (and saying, "HFCS is bad, m'kay" is not explaining the difference), the label is meaningless anyway.

09-14-10, 03:38 PM	#8
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	True, but it's getting bad press. Articles written by writers who don't even know what a sugar is, read by people who don;t know what a sugar is. The same press that continues to present patent nonsense like the (utter non-existent, and in fact fraudulent) claim that mercury was related to autism. The guys making the stuff of course are perfectly happy with the average person consuming 10s of gallons of soda a year (hundreds?), mind you, but I don't blame them, I blame the people drinking the stuff. Having the name change on the label is not a problem, because people who know what the different sugars actually are, and how they work, will not have a problem, and the others are not well enough informed for me to care much about them getting "tricked" by a change. Again, if they cannot explain the difference extemporaneously (and saying, "HFCS is bad, m'kay" is not explaining the difference), the label is meaningless anyway.