Sugar, corn syrup industries in bitter court fight

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140216/MONEY/140219177/1697#sugar-corn-syrup-industries-in-bitter-court-fight

By Susan Salisbury / The Palm Beach Post

Sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are the top sweeteners when it comes to satisfying Americans’ sweet tooth, but an ongoing court battle between the two industries is filled with tart allegations about money trails and smear campaigns.

More than 700,000 pages of recently released, previously confidential documents obtained by the Palm Beach Post provide an inside look at both industries. They’ve come to light during proceedings in a federal lawsuit filed in 2011 in Los Angeles by the sugar industry against high-fructose corn syrup producers alleging misleading advertising.

Led by the Western Sugar Cooperative, the sugar companies alleged that the Corn Refiners Association and its agribusiness members such as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill Inc. and Tate & Lyle ran a deceptive $50 million ad campaign called “Sweet Surprise.” The campaign that began in 2008 told consumers that “sugar is sugar” and that “your body cannot tell the difference between sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.”

A pretrial hearing is set for November, but no trial date has been scheduled.

FULL story at link.

[L0oniX]

1. So they are charging enough for their product that they can spend the $50 million on an ad campaign?

Must be nice to have all that extra money from consumers pocket books.

[Trekologer]

4. Not that hard when the US has a price floor on sugar

In order to protect the domestic sugar industry, there is a price floor on sugar. The whole reason for the rise of HFCS has been that it is cheaper than sugar. Everywhere else in the world, sugar is cheaper than HFCS but in the US, HFCS is slightly cheaper than sugar so food producers, where possible, use it instead of sugar.

[bvar22]

5. Corn is subsidized too.

Looks like the taxpayer gets to arm both sides in this battle.
How Nice.
"The Uniquely American Solution"

[L0oniX]

6. If only we were organized and willing to not buy some things.

[Sunlei]

2. we need the processed corn additives out of our foods!!they add that crap to everything we eat!

Use it to fatten domestic food livestock NOT PEOPLE.

[arikara]

3. I would sooner see animals fed grass

Which they were designed to eat. Use the land they are growing the GE corn on to plant healthy food.

[Sunlei]

8. No more processed corn, food additives. Healthy food and plenty of good quality grass for humans...

and animals. Fresh unprocessed corn can stay.

[siligut]

9. Exactly, you don't need to genetically modify grass, it is dominant

But they want corn, so crops have to be protected cheaply using Glyphosate, but the corn suffers too, so they genetically modify it, it still gets sprayed with Glyphosate but it is resistant, so only other plants die. So the Glyphosate is then in the environment and poisons everything. I won't go into how it affects animals, slowly, insidiously over time.

[rustydog]

7. But, but, but your body doesn't know the difference!

So HFCS wants to be known as SUGAR too!
What your body doesn't know can't hurt you.