If you remember, about a year ago we started a Facebook petition to introduce a tax on foods and beverages containing HFCS. This year, we’re stepping it up a notch and starting a new petition on the official WhiteHouse.gov website! If in the next 30 days the petition gathers over 5,000 signatures, the white house [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup is dirt cheap. Why? Well, let’s look at where your tax money goes. As we already mentioned in our What is HFCS article, it is a well known fact that the US government subsidizes the corn growers of America and heavily taxes the import of table sugar from other countries. How [...]
According to a recent New York Times article, the “corn-fructose-is-good-for-you” battle that the Corn Refiners Association is trying so hard to win has just got tougher. Hunt’s ketchup has switched from high fructose syrup to sugar. “ConAgra decided to reformulate one of its biggest brands, replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in Hunt’s ketchup with old-fashioned [...]
We started a facebook petition for introduction of a tax on foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Such a tax would raise the cost of “junk food” that contains HFCS (also known as isoglucose, maize syrup and glucose/fructose syrup), force food manufacturers to start using alternative and safer sweeteners in the foods they produce, and eventually [...]
Huffington Post reported on January 12, 2010 that according to a study published in International Journal of Biological Sciences, genetically engineered corn, which is used in production of corn fructose (HFCS), has been linked to organ failure in rats. In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified [...]
The Future of Food, a documentary available for free on Hulu (in the US only), exposes the dangers of genetically engineered foods like corn and soybeans.