high fructose corn syrup commercials feature morons versus industry shills

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 01:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5aSUcU3YA   Posted on YouTube: September 07, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 23, 2008 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 463

 
OK, this might not seem to be the most important topic, compared to McGoo and Mooseilini on their way to the WhiteHouse and the meltdown of the entire American financial sector.

But these commercials pissed me off to no end. High fructose corn syrup has been proven to induce obesity and type II diabetes much faster than regular cane sugar, sucrose. Because HFCS is so much cheaper to produce (thanks in part to Big Corn companies like Archer Daniels Midland forcing tariffs on Mediterranean cane sugar) and provides a huge profit margin, and because Americans have a sweet tooth, it is in just about everything we eat. Surprisingly, the introduction of massive amounts of HFCS into the American food supply just happened to coincide with the American "obesity epidemic". Huh, think there is a connection?

In books like the Omnivore's Dilemma, we find that Americans are eating more and more and more corn, because it makes money for big agrobusiness. But it makes us much less healthier.

So, what's wrong with the commercials? They feature someone who doesn't want to ingest HFCS - but doesn't know why. Versus a shill who mocks them for their ignorance and posits that if they don't know why HFCS is bad, then how bad could it be?

IT GIVES YOU DIABETES AND MAKES YOU FAT, YOU SHILL.

Imagine a similar commercial mocking people who don't want to smoke cigarettes. Big business is entirely without scruples. Let's hope these commercials have the exact opposite effect from what they wish and piss others off as well.

[Buck Power]

1. Those ads

are so fucking lame.

[SteelPenguin]

2. yeah it's total BS

I saw an ad from this campaign in a magazine and I was dumbfounded. It basically said "did you know that HFCS has the same calories as sugar?"

Then these commercials....Yeah makes me want to punch someone.

Plain truth is that it's just not the same as sugar. It might have the 'same calories' but the body has been proven to process the two chemicals differently, with HFCS doing things such as spurring diabtes far more than sugar can, suppressing the insulin release making you feel full, prompting you to eat even more, etc. There's a whole slew of reasons HFCS is worse for you than Sugar, and they've been proved experimentally.

These ads are downright criminal imho.

[april]

3. ditto read the book! it is in Everything! nm

[Dervill Crow]

4. This reminds me of cigarette commercials in the 1960s.

"Camels: The brand more doctors smoke." :puke:

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Yup, that's exactly wht it's like

HFCS is a killer checmical.

[pansypoo53219]

6. tho it does make great caramel apple dip.

my great aunt's recipe calls for it.

and anybody who says no to corn syrup KNOWS why its bad.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. It made me obese, and I had never been obese before HFCS

Now that I cut it out, hey, lookeee here, I'm getting back to normal! That stuff should be banned.