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Skriven 2012-08-26 06:19:00 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: HUNT'S & HFCS
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-=> Glen Jamieson wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> "ConAgra Foods Inc. has removed high fructose corn syrup from its
 DD> Hunt's brand ketchup.

 DD> Shoppers have been shying away from high-fructose corn syrup due to
 DD> health concerns, and it was consumer demand that drove the changes,
 DD> said Hunt's brand manager Ryan Toreson.

 GJ> I have read that the recent drought in USA has resulted in a large
 GJ> drop in corn production.  As it is used for cattle and chicken feed as
 GJ> well as HFCS, the price of corn on the world market has risen some
 GJ> 30%.   Is it a coincidence that this occurred at the same time that
 GJ> the above-mentioned food giants became concerned with USAn obesity,
 GJ> and claimed that that was the reason to switch to cane sugar?

 DD> I believe that it is. The switch from HFCS came BEFORE the drought
 DD> reared its ugly head.

 DD> According to a panel of "experts" I listened to on my local NPR radio
 DD> station food prices at the consumer end are expected to rise "only" 3%

 GJ> I was going on the world grain prices, as given on the weekly ABC
 GJ> "Landline" program.  The drought in Russia and elsewhere has also had
 GJ> an effect on prices, but Australia has had a particularly good season
 GJ> for wheat and barley, so our farmers are smiling.

They discussed the extended droughts in Asia (Eastern Russia & China) and
Africa and the bumper crops elsewhere. Locally our wheat did well. And the one
die-hard I know who still plants rye and oats was smiling. But, the corn crop
is in the porcelain convenience for this year - even in fields under irrigation
it's not up to what was expected. I travel a fair range of territory on a daily
basis and it is a sad sight to see fields of corn less than waist high already
gone brown and dead. As a result, corn, which was around U$2.50/bushel, was
getting offers of U$8.62/bushel at a rail terminal facility I pass by often. 

Farmers like the $8 corn. They don't like the knowledge that it will soon run
out and unless we get a good, wet winter and spring and reasonable rains they
won't be able to make a crop next year.

There is some hope for the soya crops. The dribs and drabs of moisture we have
had - while they came too late for the corn crop did do some good for the bean
farmers.
 
 DD> more than usual. There is a huge hue-and-cry over using food for
 DD> automobile fuel (ethanol) beginning to be heard. Which is both short
 DD> sighted and inaccurate in its claims. But, as this is a snout counting
 DD> year, the buzz words and hyperbole are in full chat.

 GJ> E10 fuel is widely sold here, but in this country ethanol is made from
 GJ> fermented molasses, which is a by-product of the cane sugar industry.

 DD> As a side benefit the outcry is giving rise to increased ethanol
 DD> production from other than grain as producers begin to pull their noses
 DD> off the bottom line and notice that it might behoove them, from a PR
 DD> and from a cost standpoint to make the infrastructure investment to
 DD> enable them to make fuel ethanol from such things as sawdust, yard
 DD> waste, garbage, corn stalks (after the grain has been sent to ADM to
 DD> make HFCS), etc.

 GJ> I do look out for evidence of HFCS appearing in items on our s/market
 GJ> shelves, but so far I haven't found any, even though some food
 GJ> sometimes is imported from USA; currently, grapes, at $9/kg.

Does your equivalent to our Food and Drug regulators insist that HFCS be
labelled as such and called out in the ingredients - or have they let ADM, Tate
& Lyle, Staley, et al weasel word it as "corn sugar" which was rejected by our
FDA -- getting it right for once.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dave's Black Bean/Corn Salad
 Categories: Chile-heads, Salads, Beans, Citrus
      Yield: 9 Servings
 
     32 oz (2 cans) Premium black beans
           - rinsed, drained
     16 oz Can corn; rinsed, drained
      8 oz Can red kidney beans; rinsed
           - drained
      1 md Red bell pepper; diced
      1 md Green bell pepper; diced
    1/2 bn Cilantro; fine chopped, not
           - too fine, though
      1 lg Red onion; diced
           Juice of 1 lime
           Salt & Black Pepper
      1 tb Olive Oil
      1 tb Honey
      2 tb Italian Dressing
 
  Mix together in a large bowl and refrigerate. Better on
  the second day once the flavors blend together. You can
  use more or less Italian Dressing if you chose, you don't
  want a lot of liquid in the salad.
  
  Yield: 8 to 10 servings
  
  From: Dave Toussaint; Chile-heads Mailing List
  
  MM Format by Dave Drum - 30 October 1999
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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