Date:   2/1/2008 6:41:32 AM ( 17 y ago)
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There's one ingredient that keeps me from buying. High fructose corn syrup. That the one thing that keeps me from buying a whole heck of a lot of stuff at the grocery store. I mean - a lot.

the more i read about corn, the more it seems it should not be high on anybody's list to be ingesting. And have it be used stricly for use as a bio-fuel.

http://www.dailygotham.com/blog/mole333/a_biofuel_proposal_making_alternative...
Government incentives have made high fructose corn syrup almost ubiquitous in our food. The corn lobby loves this because it gives them something to do with their corn with government subsidy. The food industry loves it because, with the government incentives, it is slightly cheaper than using sugar. The problem is that there is a strong correlation between the increased use of high fructose corn syrup in foods consumed by Americans and the rise of obesity. No one knows if there is a causal relationship, but the correlation is quite striking. The bottom line is that there is evidence that high fructose corn syrup is at least partly responsible for health problems among Americans.

Seems to me a better use of that high fructose corn syrup, still providing a market for our corn farmers, would be conversion into biofuel. The switch would have to be coordinated so the incentive is in converting from high fructose corn syrup use in our foods to use for biofuels, rather than use of corn used for food directly into biofuels. So again, the proposal would have to be carried out carefully to avoid competition with regular food use. But if we can fight obesity (arguably) while also helping the environment seems worth doing. Still, I consider this proposal to be harder to sell and implement than the first two, and I consider it likely that industry resistance would be high.

We have to move from talking about alternatives to USING alternatives to oil. Biofuels are likely to be a necessary part of the solution. The above proposals would be important for implementing a conversion from foreign oil to foreign or domestic biofuels and would couple economic, environmental and, in some cases, health or anti-drug benefits.

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