The Omnivore’s Dilemma is STILL giving me nightmares, and I read it last year. We are, indeed, Giant Corn Monsters which kills me – because I really love corn. Or what WAS corn. That being said, I’ve GOT to see these guys manufacture their own high fructose corn syrup factory (!)

I assume I’m the last person around “here” to read the book, but glad to hear it’s inspired a movie. The more info out there about corn syrup/corn subsidies/genetically modified strains, the better — and you never know, film has the potential for reaching a broad audience or, at least, inspiring more discussion.

But I agree that the whole ethanol thing is a freaking sham and that today’s super-market corn tastes like chalk and that Corn Syrup is fattening and disgusting.

You remember the mojito, right? With the sugar cane swizzle stick?

Not for Rose’s. Its only sweetener is HFCS.

There’s no reason to drink Coke anymore unless it’s Kosher.

If a package says “premium” AND has HFCS in the ingredients list, put it back in its double-dealing ditch of deceit and walk away.

Oh and it’s a perfect example of the marvels of food science – how to extract a harmful substance out of a harmless source. :/

When you see Paula Deen pitching for Smithfield, be confident that they took pains to shield her from the way their pigs are really raised. Not likely she’ll be flying over or driving by their factory farms.

The words “hydrogenated” and “high fructose” are now placed as far down the ingredients list as they are able to bury them. They feel more comfortable listing chemicals in the flour ahead of these bogeyman words. Soon, they’ll start using even more adjectives between the start of the list and hydrodgy and HFCS.

Even chocolate, with cocoa butter as a standard ingredient since Milton Hershey was in diapers, is under pressure from your Cargills, ConAgras, Nestles, and even Hershey to substitute other fats. They’re allowed to substitute fats now but have to label them accordingly. That’s not deceptive enough for them.

Cargill, they have to get the Nobel chutzpah prize. As long as you follow the microwave instructions for their potpies, there’s no danger of getting salmonella. That’s okay, follow directions or not there’s no danger of getting any nutrition, either.

And finally, look at http://www.skippy.com – finally somewhere you can find a nugget of truth in this mess. But it’s not what you think.

More people lifted out of poverty because of the West, more people with healthy children and you’re bitching about corn.

More people who will live longer than any time in history and you’re bitching about corn.

Please take a jump in the closest lake and drown your damned self.

If this is truly the greatest country on earth then it was brought to that level by people who did bitch, who did strive to make things better instead of just accepting what was put in front of them as good enough. We can be eating better, we can be healthier, this country can become better.

johnmark7 you are nothing but an ignorant asshole. This isn’t bitching about corn, it’s bitching about massive corporations that are creating unhealthy products from corn and doing what they can to keep it covered up while they stick the product into everything they can.

Ignorant ass will suffice. No point dragging his hole into his corn-fed cousin-consummatin’ red-state rant.