On: Princeton researchers find that HFCS prompts considerably more weight gain

[ars]

A related problem is the tariff on sugar, which artificially keeps the price of sugar high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Sugar_Program

So you have a subsidy on corn, a tariff on sugar, and the double imbalance causes companies to use HFCS.

If we got rid of the tariff on sugar we could import sugar from brazil, and make ethanol out of it. (Which actually works, unlike ethanol from corn.)

It's politically impractical to just leave the corn farmers out to dry, so instead we choose some other food and give them subsidies on that if they agree to switch from corn.

[gte910h → ars]

I'm surprised we can't grow sugar beets there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet

[ars → gte910h]

You're right, we could. The range goes all the way up to canada.

[gte910h → ars]

I know brazil's biofuel process is based off cane. Wonder if beets would work too.