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Roughly $40 billion in federal subsidies are going to pay corn growers, so that corn syrup is able to replace cane sugar. Corn syrup has been singled out by many health experts as one of the chief culprits of rising obesity, because corn syrup does not turn off appetite. Since the advent of corn syrup, consumption of all sweeteners has soared, as have people's weights. According to a 2004 study reported in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition, the rise of Type-2 diabetes since 1980 has closely paralleled the increased use of sweeteners, particularly corn syrup.

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Dan McGuire, Policy Chairman of the American corn growers Association, owns a corn farm in his native Nebraska and has watched the destruction of various U.S. agricultural export markets from the inside. He remembers well the days a decade ago and earlier, when large quantities of U.S. corn were shipped down to New Orleans and other U.S. ports and onto freighters for export to the European Union. As markets around the world dry up, grain elevators across the Corn Belt have been overflowing with unsold grain.

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Frito-Lay told its suppliers not to grow transgenic corn, and Archer Daniels Midland warned its grain suppliers to begin segregating bioengineered crops. corn growers viewed such developments as a clear sign that "GM organisms have become the albatross around the neck of farmers."58 The loss of both domestic and foreign sales outlets coupled with more general problems of overproduction caused corn prices to drop to their lowest point in ten years. As a partial remedy, the American corn growers Association advised its members to consider planting only conventional seeds.

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This CRA group, of course, represents corn growers, and corn growers depend on the revenues from high-fructose corn syrup so they can grow and sell their corn. One of their reps has informed me that high-fructose corn syrup is a "wholesome natural ingredient" that does not promote diabetes and is produced by hard working farmers throughout the Midwest. In other words, people who work for the Corn Refiners Association are insisting that high-fructose corn syrup doesn't promote diabetes.

And it seems this organization, the Corn Refiners Association, was created primarily for that purpose, to promote the interest of the corn growers. And while there's nothing wrong with promoting the interest of corn growers, there is something wrong with saying that sugar doesn't promote diabetes. In fact, this study is now being called a milestone in the debate over soft drink consumption.

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For example, the federal government provides corn growers with massive subsidies, which results in the production of high fructose corn syrup, the cheap sweetener found in almost every processed food and a significant contributor to our health problems. Thanks in part to corporate lobbying, our federal food policies have yet to catch up with nutrition science. Moreover, educational campaigns such as the government's "5 a Day" program (which encourages people to eat five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day) are woefully ineffective in bringing about behavioral change.

Richard Berman, director of the industry front group Center for Consumer Freedom hen you think of organizations like the American V V Medical Association (AMA), the American corn growers Association, the Harvard School of Public Health, or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, do the words "radical activists" immediately spring to mind? They would if you saw the world through the eyes of an industry front group whose mission is to discredit any group that might interfere with corporate profits.

RADICAL" ORGANIZATIONS ATTACKED BY CCF (A VERY PARTIAL LIST)8 Action on Smoking and Health American Medical Association American corn growers Association Center for Food Safety Center for Science in the Public Interest Consumer Federation of America Earth Island Institute Friends of the Earth Harvard School of Public Health Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Association of High School Principals Organic Consumers Association Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine U.S.

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July EPA advisory panel confirms December 2000 judgment that StarLink could be allergenic. corn growers reduce acres planted in genetically modified seeds. September Bayer said to be buying Aventis CropScience for $5 billion and to assume $1.7 billion in debt. U.S. consumer group, Center for Food Safety, obtains Freedom of Information Act information that Aventis knew in 1999—and told EPA in January 2000—that farmers were selling StarLink for use in human food. December Canada reports that keeping StarLink out of its food supply cost its government nearly $1 million.

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And while there's nothing wrong with promoting the interest of corn growers, there is something wrong with saying that sugar doesn't promote diabetes. In fact, this study is now being called a milestone in the debate over soft drink consumption. As Kelly Brownell, Director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, explains, "This is a strong study which joins a number of others in showing that soft drink consumption is related to poor diet and obesity, yet the soft drink industry says the opposite." Now, what's stupid about all of this?

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Thus, while corn growers had reduced man-hours by nearly four-fifths, cotton farmers had cut the needed labor by only one-half. And most cotton growers in the Southeast had not done nearly that well.74 The problem was that cotton did not easily adapt to mechanization. In 1903, a historian of the American cotton industry wrote: Cotton harvesting machinery would be of incalculable value, but an efficient machine for picking cotton has yet to be invented.

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