New Commercial for High Fructose Corn Syrup

[robb418]

I don't know if this has been posted before....but I was watching TV the other day and I couldn't believe what I was seeing....a commercial advertising how wonderful high fructose corn syrup is. I went to the website that is showed....sweetsurprise.com...and there was another one on there basically saying the same thing....gotta love it. Oh and I also checked out who ran the ad....turns out it is the Corn Refiners Association and the best part is their address....1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC :rolleyes:

Here are the links to the ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q

[biblegirl]

he he, good one :D

[pacoquerak]

i dont watch tv much but lots of weird brainwashing comercials of late

i saw for the first time a nuclear power comercial, but I have yet to see one for wind or solar energy.

I saw a comercial for cargill, one of the fine makers of artifical flavors several times

[stelios]

High Fructose corn starch is a very bad sweetener.
It has been tested on rats and causes morbidity ie death
so in many ways it is worse than the other sweeteners which only cause brain damage or tumours.

However, i cant blame the manufacturers for trying to sell their products.
High fructose corn syrup is a by product of making corn, extracting the oil, then extracting the starch and leaving only the meal which is then sold either as animal of human feed.
So HFCS is a very cheap product and that is the reason they are pushing it.
It is the governemt's fault for not banning it.
Cane sugar and beet sugar might not be fashionable but they are ok for your health.
HFCS is a killer and it is finding it's way into more and more foods over here.

By the way Staley is owned by Tate & Lyle and is one of the biggest High Fructose corn starch makers in the world.

[pacoquerak]

High Fructose corn starch is a very bad sweetener.
It has been tested on rats and causes morbidity ie death
so in many ways it is worse than the other sweeteners which only cause brain damage or tumours.

However, i cant blame the manufacturers for trying to sell their products.
High fructose corn syrup is a by product of making corn, extracting the oil, then extracting the starch and leaving only the meal which is then sold either as animal of human feed.
So HFCS is a very cheap product and that is the reason they are pushing it.
It is the governemt's fault for not banning it.
Cane sugar and beet sugar might not be fashionable but they are ok for your health.
HFCS is a killer and it is finding it's way into more and more foods over here.

By the way Staley is owned by Tate & Lyle and is one of the biggest High Fructose corn starch makers in the world.

actualy it's not cheap at all, it's just got a huge government subsidy backing it. Can sugar is far cheaper where it can be grown and i am quite sure sorgum sudan is cheaper too and it can be grown anywhere in the states.

[megafish33]

Corn syrup is just gross, I don't care how much or how little fructose is in it. Although, I suppose one could say the same thing about molasses but at least it's full of minerals, vitamin A, and potassium.

Here is an experiment to try... Buy a Coca-Cola made with corn syrup and buy a Latin American version-in a glass bottle and sweetened with pure sugar-and compare the tastes. And if you really want to get scientific borrow a blood sugar checkeroutter thing if you know any diabetics. Big fuckin surprise. My blood glucose went only mildly higher with the one sweetened with PURE SUGAR, yet it almost doubled with the American corn syrup one! Now guess which sweetener is promoted as "safe" for diabetics? :rolleyes: Nice guys, real nice... kill us off for profits... :rolleyes:

Sugar tastes much better than both, but it's still very refined. A company called NOW Foods makes a product called Sucanat... it's an organic sweetener from the sugarcane plant, nothing is added to it, and only the water is removed. Like pure molasses products, Sucanat retains all of the minerals. If you're like me and don't sweeten things very often you'll find that their 2lb (I think) bag goes a long way.