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Originally Posted by AlCapone
Yes, definitely. It's in almost everything here. You can find milk with HFCS in it.
All of this dates back to the Nixon era when the public demaned inexpensive food. Nixon signed off on subsidizing corn farms and other staples to produce affordable food products. Since then, they've genetically crafted this poison in all of our food in an effort to provide the mass public with cheap food.
The corn farmers are in the red without Government subsidization. What does this tell us? There's too much! We don't need all of that. 98% of the corn grown in the U.S. isn't even edible, it's used as feed stock for cattle. So it's not only in our beverages, cereal and just about everything, but it's also in the beef we have here.
It's out of control.
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Stop blaming President NIxon and go read your history. Prior to the 1890s and early 1900s sugar was added to NOTHING except the occasional cuppa java or tea. It was only after food producers learned that adding refined (pure) sugar to foods made them taste "better" and that the sugar improved sales that the problem began. The sugar problem is also related to the "invasion" of Cuba as at the time Cuba's primary export was sugar and the US investors needed a market, so they created on. The unhealthy aspects of a high-sugar diet wer not understood at the time, so don't go blaming big corporations for politicians or starting it.
We know better now and producers are reducing sugar content, left, right and center.
Still, the average American ingests nearly 130 lbs of sugar yearly and that is very,very bad.
Although there is some truth to what you have written, by and large, you are basing your opinions on a very limited understand of the history of sugar in the USA.
Sally.