Reply #11: Sugar is used a lot in baking [View All]

[underpants]

I am told.

HFCS is used as a substitute for sugar because it is cheaper. BIG SUGAR as it is called has established price floors on sugar-the price can never go LOWER than that amount. For you or me that is no big deal, how many pounds of sugar do you buy a year? It is about $1 more than it should be. Now if you buy truckloads on a daily basis (like a bakery or food manufacturer) you are going to find a cheaper alternative....like HFCS

Corn is the enemy

It is a money losing crop other than govt incentives and the like
It is not paid to market it is paid to yield-meaning the more you make the more money you get so people are plowing over hedgerows and "watering holes" for migratory birds (this brings them into the farm which will be how bird flus will spread into the population).
Pesticides (like for corn) are made from Petroleum
Fertilizers (like for corn) are made from natural gas
It all ends up in the waterways ( I haven't even covered how irrigation is graining the formerly giant aquafer in the upper mid-West) and it ends up in the Mississippi river and in the gulf where a giant Dead Zone has developed where no fish or shellfish can exist because all of the oxygen in the water is drained by a super-algae. Fishermen have to burn more, you guessed it, gas to motor out to where they can catch fish.
There is more. Trust me, like ethanol.

Corn is the enemy.