Rabbi Hirsch Meisels
Jewish Friends With Diabetes International
http://www.FriendsWithDiabetes.org

“Corn syrup” on the label can mean corn syrup solids, which are often a powder — the liquid is removed in processing. HFCS is a liquid. The solids are less fructose, more dextrose. Either way, they’re both highly-processed sugars that aren’t natural to the human diet. I’d avoid both.

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Corn-Syrup.html

If this nonsense keeps up, the federal government could end up running trillion-dollar deficits … oh, wait …

“Ingrained” is the right word, pun and all. I appreciate the support for the film.

Always pleased to hear that a rental led to a sale. I appreciate the support for the film.

To err is human, but to really screw things up, you need the government.

That’s a darned good question. I’m against all the subsidies. The amount produced and price of a commodity should be determined by supply and demand, not governments.

It’s frustrating when you think about it; all those subsidies because politicians want to buy votes in the farm states. I knew a guy in college who grew up on a farm; he told me his parents refused to participate in the subsidy program because they thought it was a stupid idea. I hope they were able to survive as farmers.

From what I’ve read, fructose is more damaging to the liver. Too true about the tariffs.

The players include the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the food processing industry, the agricultural industry, and the health care industry.

Each of these organizations plays a part in influencing the food supply market through the propagation of misinformation, and they use that influence to manipulate food consumers. These organizations are intent on the goal of profiting from the billions of dollars spent on food and health care each year, all at public expense.

I believe food supply politics are endangering the supply of clean, whole foods and the effective provision of health care in America.

On my website, I have a list of things each person can do to break up this cycle. And it’s actually not that hard for each individual.. if each person would stop buying grain fed meats and products that contain corn, soybeans, canola or cottonseed, it would really change the agricultural and food markets in this country.

You’re exactly right; we can at least vote with our dollars. But it’s too bad it takes such effort to find, say, grass-fed beef.

I like your step-by-step guide to Food Supply Politics.

The free-range chickens eat “organic grain”. I’d like to see their free range, but suspect I’d be disappointed. The yolks from their eggs are pale.

The Berkshire pork are also fed non-GMO corn.

I kind of wondered why these animals aren’t allowed to graze and forage…now I know why! Thank you.

I knew subsidies had a lot to do with the dominance of corn, but the film makes it clear just how screwy the system is. What’s funny is that many reviewers compared it to Super Size Me. That’s hogwash. Super Size Me was a semi-brainless “blame the evil corporation” suckup to the Hollywood and academic anti-capitalist crowd.