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7.10.10

Hunt removes HFCS from all products

There has recently been a movement to replace High Fructose Corn Syrup in food products with naturall cane or beet sugar.

Recently, Hunt has removed all HFCS from their product lines. Clearly they are doing this because of customer demand.

HFCS is very cheap, because the American government subsidizes corn. Why do they do this? Simply put, giant food conglomerates like Monsanto lobby the government to influence laws. Lobbyists have successfully put a HUGE import tax on sugar.

So sugar is expensive, and corn syrup is cheap. Following me?

This is the sort of things that make me want to firebomb corporate headquarters.

35 comments:

  1. good info. Thanks for the heads up

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  2. Ugh.. corporations, always trying to scam the masses somehow.

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  3. OMG! That's nasty. This ain't no free market (never was). I don't like these big corporations.

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  4. real sugar is where its at-

    if youd ever had the dr pepper with it, youd know

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  5. Business do what business do... unfortunately.

    You should check out the film The Informant. It's about stuff like that.

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  6. Wow, thats really interesting! I really would like to see more stuff like this!

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  7. This is a good move, High Fructose Corn Syrup is a nightmare. Hear about their plan to rename it? Bastards, all of them.

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  8. thats good to hear cause the stuff is just bad

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  9. 2 years ago i wouldnt understand this, thankgod i did economics! ahaha! thanks for the heads up on that

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  10. fructose is crappy, i hope more companies switch back to real sugar

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  11. Thanks for the info, never thought about this.

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  12. real sugar is where it's at!

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  13. It's been almost a month since the doctor told me I was borderline type 2 diabetes. That same day I made the commitment to get in health, and have managed to drop 9 pounds already!!

    Really glad to see stuff like this, since I now know our food is slowly getting healthier.

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  14. this all for a healthier future

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  15. I hear in brazil its the opposite. Sugar is cheap and all alternatives are expensive.

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  16. love when stuff like this happends, so we can have healthier foods

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