"One of the first things I noticed when I came to this country was the
taste of the food. Everything is sweet. Everything. Even food that is
supposed to be in no way sweet is sweet. The bread is sweet. Soup is
sweet. Corn chips are sweet. Soy sauce is sweet."

"It wasn't long before I started to scan ingredient labels looking for
the source of this excessive sweetness. And you've no doubt guessed
the culprit already from the title of this blog post: high fructose
corn syrup."

"In the USA, there is a surplus of corn. The government gives
subsidies to farmers who grow corn, which is an incentive for farmers
to grow even more. These subsidies are in place because they are
politically advantageous. With so many people's and companies'
livelihoods dependent on the production of corn, the government tries
to do everything they can to assist so they can win election points.
The problem, of course, is that America doesn't need all that corn.
Nobody does. One of the ways America gets rid of the ridiculous excess
of corn these farmers supply is by turning it into the cheapest form
of sugar out there."

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Seismic detectors the world over are beginning to have difficulty resolving
genuine geophysical phenomena from signal "noise" caused by the collective
waddling of millions of morbidly obese yanks. Fact.