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Kara Andrade made a blog post yesterday with this cartoon from the Christian Science Monitor explaining HDTV. We recently got an HDTV after not having any TV for quite a while and I’m inclined to agree with the cartoon’s assessment.

The other night I was watching television and I saw this amazing, pro-high fructose corn syrup commercial. It was paid for by the Corn Refiners Association. The messaging of the commercial is fantastic. Basically they say “You are too stupid to quickly explain what’s wrong with eating tons of corn syrup, so you should just knock back a giant glass of nasty purple bug juice and shut up”. While the whole commercial is terrible on so many levels, I am really encouraged that there is such an increased awareness of healthy diets and processed foods that they even felt the need to run the ad.

…and here’s another one:

I’ve probably been off the syrup for about six years and the other day I accidentally picked up a jar of jam with the stuff in it. After you haven’t had it in a long time the unnatural flavor cuts through you palette like a knife.

So if you find yourself in a situation like those portrayed in the ads where a close friend pressures you to quickly explain your views on high fructose corn syrup, you should just cite some passages from Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma or you can just say that it makes you fat and is part of a government mind control conspiracy.