"If there's one thing we've done for the poor, it's to give them plenty of corn — in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. That is like getting a full serving of vegetables in every package of Starbursts."
-- Stephen Colbert on the "Colbert Report" April 21, 2008
Colbert is one of the few known people who focuses from time to time on the evils of high-fructose corn syrup.
Corn is not a vegetable in the truest sense. It's starch. And the poor eat more HFCS than the rich, and their health suffers as a result.
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