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    Your chocolate is mostly corn...

    http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...s-mostly-corn/

    On a typical Valentine’s Day, consumers buy more than 58 million pounds of chocolate. Since 70 percent of that chocolate is owned by two companies, Hershey and Mars, most of it was actually processed from genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans.In fact, an estimated 90 percent of processed food in grocery stores use GM corn and soybeans patented by agriculture giant Monsanto Company. That includes chocolates, which contain soy lecithin and high fructose corn syrup — a sweetener that’s been tied to the obesity epidemic.

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    What Monsanto wants, Monsanto gets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    What Monsanto wants, Monsanto gets.
    That's true. Including a seat at the head of the FDA:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor

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    Quote Originally Posted by N2RJ View Post
    That's true. Including a seat at the head of the FDA:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor

    Sign the petition from MoveOn.org to tell Obama to get rid of him:

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    They have a lot of employees on the Federal payroll appointed by both parties over the years. Same thing with the USDA being run by feedlot owners.
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    Quote Originally Posted by al2n View Post
    They have a lot of employees on the Federal payroll appointed by both parties over the years. Same thing with the USDA being run by feedlot owners.
    EPA being ran by chemical manufacturer CEO's, Fed being ran by bankers, etc etc.

    It's a double-deged sword. The experts are often the ones who know how to bend the rules, and it can cut both ways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by al2n View Post
    They have a lot of employees on the Federal payroll appointed by both parties over the years. Same thing with the USDA being run by feedlot owners.
    Oh I agree.

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    Not here, in Europe, they won't...
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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    Not here, in Europe, they won't...
    Yes they will. Resistance is futile.

    (Capacitance, on the other hand, is reactive)
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Yes they will. Resistance is futile.

    (Capacitance, on the other hand, is reactive)
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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    Not here, in Europe, they won't...
    IDK about there but I have yet to find any chocolate that I like here in Spain. Most of it is made in Belgium and is dark chocolate which is very very bitter. I like milk chocolate...hard to find here. Then again, so is "whole milk". Not a big loss as I dont often eat chocolate.

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