High-Fructose Corn Syrup - the Controversy

An aside: that italicised portion is very likely true. The problem is, it's probably also true of half the organically-grown apples and jungle-picked papayas, and likely 90% of the fish you'll ever eat. Mercury (and lead and cadmium and......) is a normal part of our environment and so shows up in many places in our environment. It can do that with no help at all from us polluting humans, and we can detect it at insanely low levels. Don't you imagine that pesticides and fertilizers are used on sugarbeets and sugarcane? And what genetic modifications are going to sneak into syrup from GM corn, exactly?And no, I don't know enough about HFCS to have a real opinion on whether it's any worse than sucrose. I feel, without proof, that the high intake of sugars in general is a big reason for lots of poor health outcomes, and maybe even a contributor to my fat belly. But Crash is almost surely correct: HFCS is getting demonized when it is not very different from sucrose.It's pretty hard to believe that the beet/cane lobby can even stay in the game against the corn lobby, too. Maybe the corn boys have been spending all their time on the big scam of corn ethanol for fuel.