Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
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Category: Environment • Food&Drink
Posted on: August 27, 2007 12:15 PM, by EJGili
Stomachs and petrol tanks are for the first time in competition and farmers everywhere are asking themselves a novel question: am I planting food or energy? There is no single source for the revolution sweeping across every continent. But one starting point is Jim Curl's 350-acre farm in Brahman, Oklahoma. This year he planted a third of it with genetically modified corn instead of the area's traditional crop of wheat. ( Times Online)
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I think we ought to start a pool to predict when Coke will switch back from high fructose corn syrup to the original formulation of sucrose. The original justification was that the sucrose (cane-sugar, I assume) was getting too expensive, but I bet the competition you are talking about will undo that.
And this latest report, suggesting that the carbonyls in high fructose corn syrup might be leading to the diabetes increase, will only further fuel the switch back.
Posted by: Ahcuah | August 27, 2007 01:14 PM