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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by jrockway on Monday August 03, 2009 @09:09AM (#739102)
This is really only in the US, though, where the government pays more for corn than it's worth on the market. This makes it cheap, and since people want cheap food, "they" have figured out how to put it in everything.

When I go to Europe, the drinks on the flight there are sweetened with HFCS. On the way back, they are sweetened with cane sugar. "Corn in everything" is mostly and American thing. (And we're so healthy because of it!)

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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by encoderer on Monday August 03, 2009 @10:00AM (#739195)
Don't kid yourself. It's far from Corn Syrup. Americans eat more Corn than other cultures, but Europeans still eat more corn than you're letting on. Even if there's a metabolism between the corn and your bodies, it's still corn you're eating. The Carbon 4 is still there, it can still be traced.
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