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re: Corn Lobby already whining about Costs changing to Pure Sugar vs HFCS.

Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:46 am to
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
36444 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:46 am to
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Corn/Sugarcane industries aside, I don't understand why people consider this a win.

Corn or sugarcane, a can of coke is still going to contain wayyyyy too much sugar for there to be any difference in terms of health.


from a health standpont....imo it doesnt matter

it is a win for the environment, its a win for pricing of all other foods because corn is one of the main feed stocks for cattle and if they get it out of fuel...its a huge win for everyone as ethanol fuel is overall terrible on vehicles
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
9610 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:47 am to
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It tastes infinitely better.


Okay, let's say that's true.

Wasn't the whole thing about RFK and getting things like HFCS and dyes out of food supposed to be in the name of health? Wasn't it make America healthy again?
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
35955 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:49 am to
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Wasn't the whole thing about RFK and getting things like HFCS and dyes out of food supposed to be in the name of health? Wasn't it make America healthy again?


We don’t need daddy government to ban cokes, we just need everyone to be honest about what they do to your health.

We’ve pretty well done that with cigarettes. Yes, there is a sin tax on them, but the marketing demonization had a WAY bigger effect on curbing smoking
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
6083 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:49 am to
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Farm sugar cane or sugar beets you idiots. Adapt to changing markets like real businesses do or die.


I think they get higher yields with corn where they grow it.
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
Undisclosed Secure Location
Member since Feb 2008
23512 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:51 am to
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I don’t think you’re going to have much sugarcane growing up in Iowa


Nor rice. However, if we eliminate all farm subsidies, including the ethanol BS there may be a massive correction in land prices.

Maybe an acre in Iowa will drop below $10k.

Posted by Chuck Barris
Member since Apr 2013
2809 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:54 am to
Anybody ever think about how different several federal laws and policies might be if Iowa wasn't one of the first states to hold a primary election?

(Yes, I know it's a caucus.)
Posted by LarryCLE
Member since Apr 2017
1668 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:54 am to
Healthier food is great and all, but I think a side effect will be Bill Gates and the Chinese buying up even more farmland for solar and wind energy.
Posted by ticklechain
Forgotten coast
Member since Mar 2018
826 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:55 am to
Please
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
12284 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:56 am to
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Take it out of our gas too
Posted by bbeck
Member since Dec 2011
15192 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:56 am to
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Would love to see ex-politicians banned from any sort of lobbying and strict rules put in place under the treason code/laws.

This

These people are scum
Posted by dkreller
Laffy
Member since Jan 2009
33236 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:56 am to
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Chinese buying

Not anymore
Posted by Chingon Ag
Member since Nov 2018
3920 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:56 am to
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Is sugarcane grown north of Louisiana? I guess they could do the sugar beets


Sugar beets were once produced in the Texas panhandle and I know of a large processing facility that has been dormant for years. They are quite water intensive so that is a problem for areas that rely heavily on irrigation. Last time I looked, more sugar is produced from sugar beets than sugarcane in the US.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
57670 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 9:57 am to
We're currently burning fricktons of corn for fuel and exporting fricktons overseas. Corn farmers aren't hurting for markets for their product and I say this as someone whose family is firmly rooted in corn farming.
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20391 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:00 am to
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now they know how the sugarcane farmers felt.


Right.


Sugarcane fellas must have a weak lobby.
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
37662 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:02 am to
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Maybe an acre in Iowa will drop below $10k.


Farmers frickkkkkked

Hunting leases STACKKKKKED
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
57882 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:05 am to
Get rid of hfcs and daylight saving

Neither are necessary and both are because of farmers
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
12883 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:07 am to
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Sugarcane fellas must have a weak lobby.


They are the ones that begged for the price floor to be put in, which created the demand for HFCS in the first place.
Posted by metallica81788
NO
Member since Sep 2008
9986 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:08 am to
Most of the corn farmed in the US is based off an artificially propped up market decades in the making

I don't hate farmers but the entire US food economy is unreasonably based on corn and it's making everyone fatter and unhealthier. Plus the gas.
Posted by KRobinson
Member since Jun 2016
245 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:09 am to
You can't just farm sugar cane anywhere. But all in all we don't need to use high fructose corn syrup anyway.
Posted by Cycledude
Member since Jul 2018
2110 posts
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:12 am to
Corn is not even efficient at making biofuels. Switchgrass for example makes way more biofuel per acre and takes a lot less inputs to grow. Corn is a heavy feeder and strips the ground of nutrients.
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