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Corn Producers launch HFCS propaganda commercials

Aaron With Oct 1, 2008
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    Aaron With started this discussion on Oct 1, 2008

    These commercials trying to improve HFCS’s image are hilarious, depressing, and pretty confusing…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5aSUcU3YA

    They must be actually pretty concerned about people’s increasing awareness about the dangers of HFCS if they need to go on the defensive with commercials like this.

    I can’t imagine that this actually helps convince people that HFCS is harmless. Anyone who already knows this is an issue is going to see right through it. And people who haven’t been exposed to the truth about HFCS are just going to have their curiosity perked & if they look into it at all they’ll find the facts.

    Can’t help but feel that we’re not too far removed as a society from the 1950s ads defending cigarettes as healthy, such as this one…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEEPNaoUG4