SweetSurprise.com Not Such a Surprise
You may have seen the TV ads talking about high fructose corn syrup that send you to a Web site called SweetSurprise.com. What you may not notice in the fine, transparent print in the TV ad are the three words, "Corn Refiners Association." Typing in SweetSurprise.com actually will redirect you from the sweetsurprise.com domain, purchased by PR giant Omnicom, to the Web site of the Corn Refiners Association. The Web site promises "the truth about high fructose corn syrup." Whether it contains that or not, we'll leave up to the health experts on the other side of the building here in Yonkers.
But for Web literacy's sake, remember to consider the source. The Corn Refiners Association's Web site doesn't exactly hide its ownership of "SweetSurprise.com," though despite the tasty packaging, the site could be more upfront about who exactly their association is made up of -- the world's largest agribusiness companies, like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill.
By the way, for entertainment purposes only, you can find spoof videos of the Corn Refiners' TV commercials here.
Comments
We are in the teaching stage of HFC to the public. So now people are not buying that shit. So here come the mind numbing commercials. This tells me that people are avoiding it, and I am LOL at the commercials. Just keep telling the truth every where you go. Tell people the truth abt HFC. This shit is POISON. So FUCK the corn association.
Posted by: Roberta | January 23, 2010 10:01 AM
Here are some YouTube videos that address the subject of High-Fructose Corn Syrup and sugars.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Truth, Still Not Sexy, HFCS; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67NMir6K0xk
Conspiracy for Fat America & High-Fructose Corn Syrup; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi6fK1PvQK4
Posted by: lm54 | October 16, 2009 01:19 PM
The information which has been given about the corn syrup is very interesting and the genuiness of the company is known.
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