If you go to You Tube and look up Corn Syrup Commercials, you'll find some really good spoofs of the commercials that have been running on tv.

BTW, I saw a news segment on a Dallas news station that pointed out the potential serious health consequences of HFCS, even mentioning the commercials. They had a person telling how HFCS is a highly processed food, hardly "natural", and how hard it is for the body to metabolize it. Yay! It's about time we hear the truth about it.

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I was surprised when I first saw the Pro-hfcs commercials I was surprised that the producers felt threatened enough by the public's increased education. Of course the situation is complex and unfortunately involves the government, too. Here's a bit from Wikipedia

"Because of a system of price supports and sugar quotas imposed since May 1982, importing sugar into the United States is prohibitively expensive. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical since the American and Canadian prices of sugar are artificially far higher than the global price of sugar[9] and the price of #2 corn is artificially low due to both government subsidies and dumping on the market as farmers produce more corn annually.[10][11] The food industry turned to HFCS as a substitute, with both Coca-Cola and Pepsi switching to HFCS in 1984.[12]

The preference for high-fructose corn syrup over cane sugar among the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers is largely due to U.S. import quotas and tariffs on sugar. These tariffs significantly increase the domestic U.S. price for sugar, forcing Americans to pay more than twice the world price for sugar, thus making high-fructose corn syrup an attractive substitute in U.S. markets. For instance, soft drink makers like Coca-Cola use sugar in other nations, but use high-fructose corn syrup in their U.S. products. Large corporations, such as Archer Daniels Midland, lobby for the continuation of these subsidies.[13]"

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