HA! Corn refiners want to change the name of high fructose corn syrup

[redhen]

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I prefer to spend my food dollars with my local farmers who are going out of their way to get away from the status quo. It is my money and I'll spend it anyway I choose.

Sounds like a good plan to me!

 

[gritsar]

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That's sorta my problem with it actually. I don't as much have a problem with them producing high fructose corn syrup, but changing the name to make it sound - to the average joe - more like cane sugar is a little ridiculous in my book.

As for those that would say folks like myself that are down on HFCS have an agenda against the american farmer, this afternoon I spent $100+ supporting my local farmers by buying at the farmer's market. Tonight I will place an order for $465 to purchase grass fed beef and range fed pork from a farmer right here in our tiny little town; processed by another neighbor. Tomorrow when I grocery shop I will not buy any food made with high fructose corn syrup or as is my policy when grocery shopping, anything that has an ingredient listed on the content label that I cannot pronounce. In other words, I put my money where my mouth is.

I fail to see how that is against the american farmer

, more like against mega agribusiness.

We shouldn't believe everything we see in movies, but it's okay to believe the commercials from the Corn Refiners Association that tell us that "sugar is sugar"?

x2 I try and buy local to and support the farmers... so hard with 4 kids! And seems like never enough $

Have you checked out this link?:
http://www.localharvest.org/

Using this link will help you find sources for food grown in your area.

 

[Katy]

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I prefer to spend my food dollars with my local farmers who are going out of their way to get away from the status quo. It is my money and I'll spend it anyway I choose.

That is your right......just remember tho that just because it comes from a farmer's market it may not be any different than what you're avoiding at the grocery store.

 

[debilorrah]

We have a Von's here that has signs all over their produce that says "Locally Grown". However when I ask, no one can tell me HOW locally grown it is. I prefer the farmers market in Hesperia because I actually know some of those people, which means I know they actually did farm it themselves.

Farmers market at the college, I will buy from the Asians because they all live in farm country around here. So I am fairly certain they grew it. Especially the pistachios. Lots of Asians grow pistachios here. I never could figure out why either. But the other people at the college market, I am not so sure about. I have a hard time picturing a lady with fake nails farming.....

 

[gritsar]

I remember well the huge farmer's market back home in Asheville, NC.

We don't have anything like that near us. I'm talking about my neighbors and their farm stands that dot the state highway around here.

For instance, this week as I did last week, I bought two watermelons from Mr. and Mrs. Oliver. These folks live about a 1/4 mile away, as the crow flies. Their two watermelons came from their own garden. Paid $6 for one, $7 for the other, same as I did last week. Sure I could have gotten them for alot less at wally world, but the ones at WW come from South America or Mexico. Sure I'm sick of watermelon after last week. I'm fairly certain the chickens are too. I end up buying watermelons from them because watermelons and tomatoes are the only two things they have right now (we're in a drought). I can't eat tomatoes, so.... I've also given the Olivers my extra roos to do with as they wish.

The sweet potatoes I bought came from another neighbor, the Barfields. They live about ummm...maybe 3 miles away? The peaches off the trees that Mr. Olivers sister Mrs. Mc Broom (our closest neighbor to the south) has. Our own peach trees weren't tended through the drought, so lost their fruit early.

Everything else came from the three small community farmer's markets around. Most number of vendors I've seen at one of the "markets" (perhaps roadside farm stand would be a better word) is 8. That one is in a town of approx. 6,000 people.

I know my neighbors, I know what's growing in their gardens and what's not. I choose to spend my money with my neighbors.

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[Duramaxgirl]

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x2 I try and buy local to and support the farmers... so hard with 4 kids! And seems like never enough $

Have you checked out this link?:
http://www.localharvest.org/

Using this link will help you find sources for food grown in your area.

Thanks I didn't know about this site!

 

[dewey]

Corn sugar...........Seven U.S. senators, all from America's corn-growing heartland, filed a letter with the FDA urging them to adopt the "corn syrup" name to help clear up consumer confusion

About time...I hope the term is adopted.​

 

[Illia]

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That is your right......just remember tho that just because it comes from a farmer's market it may not be any different than what you're avoiding at the grocery store.

VERY true.


Honestly, most people out there, farmers or backyarders, usually go for the same commercialized varieties and/or hybrids that big companies do. It's just like chicken breeds and their strains, really. Most people want production, which usually results to the same commercial stuff at the store.

(Sex-link hen vs Sex-link hen, Cornish X vs Cornish X - Same as common Yellow Dent vs common Yellow Dent, bland Cantaloupe vs bland Cantaloupe)


When I look at the seed racks at stores, or at the common seed catalogue, - I'm usually looking at F1 hybrids, bred for maximum or early production, or I'm looking at the same stuff at the store. Supersweet yellow corn, big fat and gross purple Eggplants, seedless bland Watermelons, even more bland of Cantaloupes, nothing but Spaghetti Squash, Acorn Squash, and Pumpkins, super-boring Early Girl and Roma tomatoes.

I'm sorry but just like with chickens, it's gotta be old-fashioned, full of flavor/quality, and different or rare. That's my opinion.

 

[debilorrah]

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That is your right......just remember tho that just because it comes from a farmer's market it may not be any different than what you're avoiding at the grocery store.

VERY true.


Honestly, most people out there, farmers or backyarders, usually go for the same commercialized varieties and/or hybrids that big companies do. It's just like chicken breeds and their strains, really. Most people want production, which usually results to the same commercial stuff at the store.

(Sex-link hen vs Sex-link hen, Cornish X vs Cornish X - Same as common Yellow Dent vs common Yellow Dent, bland Cantaloupe vs bland Cantaloupe)


When I look at the seed racks at stores, or at the common seed catalogue, - I'm usually looking at F1 hybrids, bred for maximum or early production, or I'm looking at the same stuff at the store. Supersweet yellow corn, big fat and gross purple Eggplants, seedless bland Watermelons, even more bland of Cantaloupes, nothing but Spaghetti Squash, Acorn Squash, and Pumpkins, super-boring Early Girl and Roma tomatoes.

I'm sorry but just like with chickens, it's gotta be old-fashioned, full of flavor/quality, and different or rare. That's my opinion.

Mine too, and I was raised on brown sugar sandwiches with butter.

It is hard to re-train your mind to actually STOP and look at what you are buying. Like when I asked at Vns where this local produce came from. No one knew.

 

[country lady]

Illia, I agree with you on wind pollination. I think a neighbor whose crops are contaminated with genetically modified, patented crops should be the one to sue, not Monsanto, etc. It is completely backwards, IMO. It's expensive and time consuming to farm, especially organically. I swear I think these people who make stupid laws really would sit and twiddle their thumbs all day if they couldn't come up with these dumb ideas. I live in farm country and harvesting corn is dusty.

Sorry to be off topic. Bureaucrats make me crazy.