Food/Health Politics

High fructose corn syrup (HCFS). As plentiful in foods as winter rain is in Oregon. And apparently just as harmless. At least according to any of the recent HFCS commercials on TV lately which have apparently stoked the fires of a new debate: HCFS - malignant or benign?

This is one colleague’s response to these commercials:

Read the aritcle by Dr. Christine Gonzalez on TheHolisticOption.Com.

$3 a day for food. $3 A DAY for food.

That’s the food stamp challenge. Can you do it for 7 days? If you do, let me know by commenting on this post.

Please, watch this short video, The Price of Hunger…

Other than gold, no single substance has had a bigger hand in shaping the history of the western hemisphere than sugar. This video explores the dark history and modern power of the world's reigning sugar cartels.

Using dramatic reenactments, it reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, and continues to be at the heart of a present-day epidemic: consumers who are slaves to a sugar-based diet.

Don’t miss Big Bad Sugar - Part 1 on yesterday’s blog.

Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. Using dramatic reenactments, it reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. Going undercover, Big Sugar witnesses the appalling working conditions on plantations in the Dominican Republic, where Haitian cane cutters live like slaves. Workers who live on Central Romano, a Fanjul-owned plantation, go hungry while working 12-hour days to earn $2 (US).

Big Bad Sugar - Part 2 is on the blog tomorrow.