The coalition is a U.S.-led effort to combat emissions of black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
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The corn industry gets huge subsidies and then makes the HFCS to get rid of some of the suplus.
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In which case they should lose their case and HFCS can be called whatever people want to call it.
Since CFCs were banned, many fridge manufacturers have replaced them with Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
No one disputes that as the popularity of HFCS soared following its introduction in 1967, so too have obesity rates.
All sugar from table sugar to HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) to honey contains some mixture of fructose and glucose.
Some scientists, for example, have argued that unlike regular sugar, the higher amount of fructose in HFCS metabolizes into more fat, among other problems.
The sugar industry gets the tariff protection, doubling the price of sugar, which is the only thing that makes HFCS worth manufacturing.
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The defendants moved for summary judgment based on the fact that Ries had not provided evidence that HFCS and citric acid are artificial.
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Rather, HFCS supporters argue that obesity is as much a function of a corresponding decline in physical activity during the same period that HFCS consumption increased.
Although the division that makes HFCS is only the third largest of ADM's four primary business units, it is by far the most profitable.
But last year a UN report warned that HFCs are far more potent greenhouse gases than CO2 and so their use could hamper efforts to tackle climate change.
And the easiest way to do that is to dismantle the system of trade protections that Big Sugar gets so that sugar is cheaper than HFCS and so no one uses the latter.
That HFCS is a mixture of fructose and glucose and that as soon as it hits the human gut sucrose becomes a mixture of fructose and glucose is known by everyone but rarely referred to.
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Unlike CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for about a century, short-lived climate pollutants remain in the atmosphere from a few days to a few weeks (black carbon) to up to 15 years (methane, HFCs).
" cracked the headline of a newspaper opinion piece written by Fat Land author and journalist Greg Crister , whose book's promotional press release rails against "the ever-powerful corn lobby pushing its high-fructose corn syrup on manufacturers, who ignore the research explaining the dangers of how HFCS metabolizes.
In response to the perverse incentives resulting from the overlap of the Montreal and Kyoto agreements, a group of countries including America, Brazil and Norway will call for a faster phase-out of the refrigerants that produce HFCs at a meeting that marks the 20th anniversary of the Montreal protocol in September.
The latest round is that the corn industry wants to change the usual name from HFCS (which has bad connotations now that half the country seems to be blaming it for obesity, something caused by an excess of caloric consumption over caloric use, not any specific foodstuff) to corn sugar.
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Several newspapers, for instance, including The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, have recently reported that "consumption" of HFCS increased 37% in the U.S. from 1986 to 2001, to 62.6 pounds per person from 45.7 pounds (in contrast to an 8% increase for sugar during the same period, to 64.6 pounds).
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