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

[tater]

If they have to call that orange plastic stuff "cheese food" I see no reason why that soy crap cannot be forced to be called something else. "soy drink" perhaps?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Come again? Jefferson hated merchants, but he also hated the government. Franklin started the nation's first franchise. Madison saw the need for both. Hamilton was a big-government man.

Which Founders are you quoting on this? With quotes, please.

I'm referring to the state laws of the time (forgive me if I can't remember where I read it.) that limited the lifespan of corporate charters and severely limited their rights, as in contracts and ownership of assets.

Will have to Google for concrete evidence of it.

"I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Jefferson

"There is an evil, which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by … corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses." - Madison

On Europe: "economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny." - Adams

EDIT: Corrected quote attribution

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I'm referring to the state laws of the time (forgive me if I can't remember where I read it.) that limited the lifespan of corporate charters and severely limited their rights, as in contracts and ownership of assets.

Will have to Google for concrete evidence of it.

Don't worry too much about it. I'm certain there were such, even if I haven't seen them. There were state laws on just about everything else under the sun. I thought you were referring to some writings of the 'majors' I had missed. It's cool.