High Fructose Corn Syrup is Environmentally Unfriendly!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603294.html

"The environmental footprint of HFCS is deep and wide," writes Pollan, a prominent critic of industrial agriculture. "Look no farther than the dead zone in the Gulf [of Mexico], an area the size of New Jersey where virtually nothing will live because it has been starved of oxygen by the fertilizer runoff coming down the Mississippi from the Corn Belt. Then there is the atrazine in the water in farm country -- a nasty herbicide that, at concentrations as little as 0.1 part per billion, has been shown to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites."

Yet another reason to boycott HFCS.
 
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