Jobs apocalypse! US Corn Refiners Association announces jihad against imported cane sugar.

Photo above - Patriotic, God-fearing corn farmers in the film "Signs" try to ward off alien damage to their crop.

Sometimes there are no heroes. Just villains. Or at least self-serving corporations and politicians. But isn’t that essentially the same thing?

Case in point: the Corn Refiners Association is lobbing press releases at us 24/7 warning that if Trump gets his way, and Coca Cola returns to using actual cane sugar in its heart-attack-in-a -can beverages, unemployment will skyrocket. (See MSN link below). Thousands of patriotic, red-blooded Americans who pick and shuck corn may end up in the unemployment line.

I was ready to enlist in this war to preserve corn syrup. Then I remembered that the US Corn Refiners Association already bamboozled us with government grants and tax incentives and regulations which force us to ONLY use gasoline with ethanol. Which is made from 100% US grown corn. Ethanol gasoline additives cannot be made from foreign corn. Our amber waves of grain are safe!

If you think American ethanol production is small potatoes, remember that 30 MILLION acres of US farmland are devoted to ethanol-only corn. This is a different variety than corn on the cob, livestock feed, popcorn, coca cola corn syrup, and vegetable oil corn. Those ethanol subsides make our Tostitos, Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn, and Mazola oil cost more.

The Corn Refiners Association now wants us to subsidize Coke and Pepsi corn syrup. But we already are. There are tariffs on cane sugar from outside the USA. How much is the tariff? Don’t ask - it's complicated. There are 40 nations named in the regulations, with different quotas and tariffs based on country of origin. All these cane sugar tariffs predate Trump, of course. In fact, the original subsidies for ethanol were passed during the Bush administration. The president may have received phone calls from farmers and lobbyists, but I can’t be sure about that.

I’m trying – and often failing – to eat healthier. The most recent iterations of the USDA food pyramid cast shade on Coca Cola, Tostitos, Mazola, cane sugar, corn muffins, and corn-fed beef. Free range beef and chickens are possibly healthier - and happier - before they become Quarter Pounders and McNuggets though.

So far Coca Cola execs are playing their cards close to their vest. After the “new coke” debacle, they don’t want to wander into anything that could tank soda sales. Coke warns that prices could go up 10 cents. But since I paid $2.50 for a 20-ounce bottle of coke at the Shell station yesterday, I fail to see the threat. In fact, if corn ethanol was removed from gasoline, the price per gallon at the pump actually might go down. Last time I checked, I was spending more on gasoline than Coca Cola each month.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

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exchrist · 31-35

It is a serious public health crisis. Corn syrup; especially high fructose, is literally poison; ill explain. Still think when drunk driving killed a few thousand "young" ppl the drinking age got raised, improved public transportation might have fixed it instead; this. Corn syrup (HFCS, ESPECIALLY) contributes to obesity and diabetes most. Nothing has changed. Nothing will. The metabolism process that converts corn, which contains almost no sugar (glucose), incorporates a bunch of enzymes and processes, fermentation is one.
So all of that in order to produce fructose from a very water intensive crop (corn) to be used as a non-sugar sweetener (FRUCTOSE)
Therefore, insulin defficiencies (labelled as diabetes) is the result of fructose being resistant to digestion by insulin (which digests glucose). Furthermore, the waste produced by the enzymes and other processes to create fructose from corn syrup results in concentrations of biomercury in the solution that eventually becomes HFCS added to various bevarages.
Now water shortages! Plus politicains are too stuck in the prohibition era in which they were born (1920 to 1933). Such that ethanol is still readily a scapegoat.
In conclusion the health effects of corn syrup, Far outweigh the bebefits of the fuel ethanol extracted from it.
Unfortunately the industrial agriculutural complex is owned by big corn.
Thus America is FUCKED by prohibition era politicains and DJT whom did not win election received 49.8% on the day of the vote DISPROVING DEMOCRACY.
Since the race was called for DJT steadily the vote count for him has shifted toward having won (52%, though the overall vote total is now greater than the number of votes cast). Also obviously, death threats were made against Kamala forcing her to concede.

acpguy · C

Corn production is also harming the environment far worse than ethanol is doing any good. The fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides go directly into our water by run-off or via all the tiling systems that drain into rivers and ponds. The use of pesticides and herbicides have killed off a lot of beneficial insects like bees and butterflies along with ground dwelling birds and amphibians. The tile installed to help / increase crop production has drained natural water retention and vegetation killing off a lot of animals they provided cover and winter cover for. Look at how the drainage from crop fields have created a dead zone in the Gulf of America coming from the Mississippi.

exchrist · 31-35

Biomercury is a byproduct of the enzymes used to create fructose from corn. Think of it as those process' waste product being secreted directly into the solution that is processed to be HFCS. Literally feces and poison into our food supply. All because sugar is too expensive?