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In a victory for the real sugar industry, as well as for the health of all Americans, a federal judge has allowed a suit against the HFCS trade organization to go forward. The sugar industry wants to prevent the corn industry from calling their Frankensteinian creating "sugar."
Judge: Lawsuit Over 'Corn Sugar' Can Go Forward : NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141622759 - broken link)
Y'know, I don't like any government getting involved in what I choose to eat. I used to be a real saccharin addict; especially when Diet Pepsi used it. My dad was a diabetic and I learned to love the taste of "Sweet 'n' Low". Then everyone decided it was bad for you, and took it out of everything. While saccharin never made me sick, aspartame did - violently. Then along came Splenda and stevia and all of those other chemicals - and I said the heck with it and went to sugar. Fructose, lactose, all of the cellulose-based sugars are still "natural", even maple syrup.
I now use molasses and honey even moreso than sugar. What happens when some freak-or-other decides that molasses is bad for you, or honey will kill you if you eat it for 20 years? Will the government ban its sale, too?
Love corn syrup or hate it, consumers have a right to choose. But with that right comes the responsibility of knowing what you put into your mouth, and what it does to your body - not my body, not your cousin's body - yours. By taking away peoples' choices, you take away their ability to think, reason, and choose for themselves, as well as the responsibility they should be taking for themselves as well.
Now saccharin is back on the market because, guess what? It wasn't as bad as people said, and was in fact better than the other chemical derivatives they came out with to replace it!
Corn sugar IS sugar. Beet sugar IS sugar. Cane sugar IS sugar. Sugar cane is only one source of sugar. It isn't the only source, and it's not the only valid source. If the "real sugar" industry wants to get haughty about it, they might be reminded that they bleach and process their cane, and get a lot of the stuff that goes into your 5-pound bag from beets, not cane. Maybe they should start labelling the exact source of their sugar on each package from now on, so as to not offend the delicate sensibilities of their customers?
OR...
people can grow a thicker skin and accept the fact that they're stuffing sugar in their mouths, and either be happy about it, or stop doing it.
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