Balance of Food

This was a poignant piece of the reaches of Archer Daniels Midland in Mexico. ADM is driving up the price of tortillas in Mexico, which threatens to disrupt a healthier way of life for the Mexicans. The company has spread its evil in the U.S. with the support it gets to ruin our diets with high-fructose corn syrup. This is a company that actually got caught price-fixing lysine. It's really hard to get caught doing something like that, and they did. This sentence from the piece really bothered me:

After years of pressure from the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, Mexico recently revoked its tariff against high-fructose corn syrup, setting the stage for a gusher of ADM's vile sweetener into Mexico's soft-drink industry.

That is very disturbing news. So be careful when traveling in Mexico that you are not ingesting HFCS.