Anybody notice that the HFCS lobby has come out with a "cute" new
marketing program to counteract the bad press that this cheap,
unhealthful sweetener has been receiving lately?

Now we're suppose to call it "corn sugar"! The female voice-over says
"Sugar is sugar!"

NOT!

Just another way for the corn-growing states to maximize pork to mix
metaphors badly.

Anybody remember when the whores -- pardon, legislators -- from those
states got everybody, including the ignorant print/electronic media
and the corrupt Bush Administration (maybe back to Clinton?) of, going
ape over ethanol (made from subsidized corn, naturally!) as biofuel?
Thus raising the price of corn for, say, poor Mexicans whose staple
food soared out of sight. So much corn was going into biofuel, I
couldn't even find corn oil at my co-op for years, until the corn-
ethanol scam bubble burst.

The on-line literature on HFCS is extensive; includes recent study
that it may contain mercury.

Many of us label-readers now refuse to buy a product which features
heavy use of HFCS.

Persephone