Ban High Fructose Corn Syrup?
Ban High Fructose Corn Syrup?
I recently noted people on Facebook becoming "fans of" banning High Fructose Corn Syrup. While I appreciate the sentiment (I don't particularly trust the stuff myself), I think we may be missing something here. Government meddling is precisely WHY you find the stuff in everything to begin with! The price of sugar is kept artificially high by the Feds and thus it is largely unused and replaced with the much cheaper HFCS being substituted. So don't demonize the corporations, they are simply trying to give you the product you want for a price you are willing to pay. And as we know, more and more companies are seeing a market of people willing to pay extra for real sugar. See Here for details on why sugar is so expensive.
A quick and easy solution is to read labels and pay the extra for real sugar. Or, if you want to pay a fair price for it, don't ask the government to do MORE (like a ban), ask it to do LESS and the problem is solved. Hmmmm...
Me and my corn
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Other than that, not as good.
(Though I think it's not so much that sugar is artificially expensive so much as corn syrup is artificially cheap.)
No pecan pie? I might have to give up libertarianism.
(Remember, it's the other folks who'd have it banned.)
:)