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Originally Posted by petep9000
You may be right about this, though I thought that a book I read a few months back called The Omnivore's Dilemma actually said that the corn used to make stuff like ethanol, animal feeds, food additives and chemicals was a tasteless, starchy, not-particularly-delicious variety. I might be wrong, I'd need to check out that corn chapter again. We dont' even know the half of how here in the US, corn now reigns supreme. This is a contributing reason why we have obesity in such a way now here. Manufactured and packaged foods are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup and corn solids and corn, corn corn. Which of course, becomes sugar, sugar, sugar once we eat it.
The farmers in the heartlands are heavily subsidized to raise corn, or soy. Industrial plants for our post-industrial age.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma - I love that book and, mind you, I LOVE meat
Also, on HFCS:
http://www.hfcsfacts.com/?gclid=CMyj...FQ4ZHgod11j56g
http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/bu...y/02syrup.html
I suggest avoiding it at all possible costs if you can. Of course, that means no ketchup unless you bring your own because most places serve Heinz, no soda pop, etc. So, most people are not going to do this.