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In reply to the discussion: FDA Nixes 'Corn Sugar' Label for Sweetening Syrup. [View all]sendero
(28,552 posts)57. The "best science money can buy"
... has cast doubt on climate change, on various other environmental sciences, and now on this.
We're supposed to believe that this crap is just good food regardless of any evidence.
We're told we can't have labeling for GMO foods because we are not smart enough to know that they are just ok also.
I avoid HFCS. I don't care WHAT some junk-science industry-funded bullshit study says about the shit, I don't want to eat it, it is as simple as that. All you really need to know about it is the ridiculous process required to create it. It not food, it is a chemical.
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Great idea, so long as your for getting other forms of sugar out of kids foods
Major Nikon
May 2012
#17
Possible doesn't mean pratical yes, but impractical doesn't mean unnecessary either.
Fearless
May 2012
#52
OK, eat all you want of this dangerous ingredient. I stay away from Monsanto's
crunch60
May 2012
#31
You can put in your body whatever you wish. And I do check who owns the Organics I purchase
crunch60
May 2012
#39
How do we know that the conversion of sucrose to glucose and fructose by the body
Evasporque
May 2012
#42
They were inspired by the successful re-labeling of freedom suppression as "The Patriot Act." n/t
Psephos
May 2012
#20
I was thinking they were inspired by the successful rebranding the Republicans had
cstanleytech
May 2012
#21
Though the FDA often seems to be hopelessly corrupt, there are times when they do us right.
DesertDiamond
May 2012
#24
In other news the FDA tells Crispy Creme they can't substitute "lipids" for "fat" on the label.
yellowcanine
May 2012
#45