A grand follow-up

This article from Farm Aid is an excellent follow-up to my high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) post.  It covers the plethora of poor food products our grocery stores offer and breaks it down in the most practical way.  While high fructose corn syrup may not be any worse than sugar for our health, it's the prevalence of it in our grocery store options that draws the most skepticism.  The majority of us would not pour HFCS over our broccoli, but sadly, in the grocery store you find that ingredient in items as unassuming as pasta.  While HFCS itself can't cause diabetes and obesity, the overconsumption of processed foods can and will.  As for agriculture, it is the overproduction of a small sampling of crops that make up most of those of foods.  That monoculture style of production is warranting the consumer charge against companies patenting growth of those crops and then constructing the so called "foods" we are sold in the store.  The linked article explains it so well.  Read, read, read...
http://www.farmaid.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=qlI5IhNVJsE&b=2723877&content_id=%7B3E5D15C7-A937-4A0B-80EE-CB0B81EA6B76%7D&notoc=1&tr=y&auid=6011317

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