1-10 of 21 hubssort by Hot Best Latest

This is the image Corporate Cattle Farms want to portray to the public.68

CSI Miami Episode "Bad Seed" Challenges Corporate Farming Practices

This is the image Corporate Cattle Farms want to portray to the public. This is the reality of Corporate Raised Cattle held in Pens standing in their own Feces on Feed Lots. Monday October 20, 2009 CSI Miami...

1 comment    food government united states
Photo Credit: Wikipedia82

How to make soda pop

Photo Credit: Wikipedia I can't stand the taste of water. especially flat water with no bubbles. Years ago, I used to drink a lot of Coca-Cola. I had what you might call brand name loyalty. I could take the...

37 comments    juice sugar coke
pplive profile image74

www.hfc.com

Founded as early as 1878 in Minnesota, HFC-Household Finance Corporation was once one of the earliest and largest consumer finance companies, which provided it customers with instalment plan-to pay back the...

0 comments    finance money online
Photo by r-z85

The High Fructose Corn Syrup Controversy

The average American consumes more than 60 pounds of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) every year. HFCS is found as a sweetener in nearly every aisle of every supermarket in America, even in some foods that you...

6 comments    health food nutrition
Corny by Robert Couse-Baker - CC license69

High Fructose Corn Syrup ads are out to spew their super sweetness into your brain

A few months back I read a press release by the Corn Refiners Association announcing that they were developing of a series of television advertisements "encouraging consumers to get the facts and make...

4 comments    health advice food
Horatio Baccus profile image61

Fat @$$ Tax

The House Ways and Means committee has proposed a tax on sugary sodas and psuedo-juice drinks. Many on the left and right are decrying that this would hit poorer people and small retail business...

12 comments    energy obesity fuel
ferry12345 profile image56

Climate: The United States supported the phasing out of HFCs, a greenhouse gas

1st MAY, 2009. The United States could ask the 195 signatories to the treaty on the protection of the ozone layer to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a gas substitute for chlorofluorocarbons...

0 comments    climate change ozone layer hfc
Bread products often contain high fructose corn syrup to increase shelf life.75

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Check the ingredient list on almost any package of food and you will see the words, high fructose corn syrup.  It is in bread, soda, canned fruit, and even some brands of milk.  What is this corn syrup...

2 comments    health nutrition foods
wisemensee profile image59

War Against Tobacco Should Have Been Against Sugar Instead...but Lets Hope Its Not Too Late....

Many recent scientific studies about sugar and its sister additive for the food industry, HFCS, or high fructose corn syrup, show conclusively of the many damaging effects that sugar has on the human body. ...

0 comments    smoking cigarette smoking hfcs
62

What is wrong with our food?

As I mentioned in my article Let's Talk Frozen Turkey, our food is filled with preservatives, hormones and antibiotics.  I briefly touched upon Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (“CAFOs”) that...

0 comments    additives hfcs food additives
working