Comments on: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Produces Toxic Chemical "HMF" When Heated http://dprogram.net/2009/10/20/high-fructose-corn-syrup-produces-toxic-chemical-hmf-when-heated/ Countering Propaganda Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Gregory http://dprogram.net/2009/10/20/high-fructose-corn-syrup-produces-toxic-chemical-hmf-when-heated/#comment-24566 Chris Gregory Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:18:42 +0000 http://dprogram.net/?p=22706#comment-24566 And HFCS is rarely used outside of the US, where it just isn't cost-effective. In Australia, for example, where the bees have also been dying, where we've also been getting fatter yet we sweeten drinks with sugar from sugar cane. In fact, honey is pretty much chemically identical to HFCS, and most people seem to think honey's pretty good for you. I think there's more than a little bit of class hatred mixed in there with all the food paranoia. Why do you guys always target the stuff poor people prefer? And HFCS is rarely used outside of the US, where it just isn’t cost-effective. In Australia, for example, where the bees have also been dying, where we’ve also been getting fatter yet we sweeten drinks with sugar from sugar cane. In fact, honey is pretty much chemically identical to HFCS, and most people seem to think honey’s pretty good for you.

I think there’s more than a little bit of class hatred mixed in there with all the food paranoia. Why do you guys always target the stuff poor people prefer?

]]> By: NoMad http://dprogram.net/2009/10/20/high-fructose-corn-syrup-produces-toxic-chemical-hmf-when-heated/#comment-24565 NoMad Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:46:11 +0000 http://dprogram.net/?p=22706#comment-24565 What the misleading headline on this article fails to mention is, HMF is toxic only to bees, not people so far as anyone knows at present. But why let that little factoid mar a really scary headline? Well, for one thing, the gratuitous headline undermines the credibility of everything else you print. (About the only publication in America that can get away with printing pure lies without blowback is, apparently, the Wall Street Journal. You certainly shouldn't try this at home!) What the misleading headline on this article fails to mention is, HMF is toxic only to bees, not people so far as anyone knows at present. But why let that little factoid mar a really scary headline? Well, for one thing, the gratuitous headline undermines the credibility of everything else you print. (About the only publication in America that can get away with printing pure lies without blowback is, apparently, the Wall Street Journal. You certainly shouldn’t try this at home!)

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