Food prices to rise at grocery stores: industry

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The price increase will be felt across a large swatch of products -- from ketchup and beverages that depend on corn sweeteners to beef, poultry and pork where animals are fed corn.
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Manufacturers can easily make bread and catsup and whatever other products without adding corn syrup to them.

In fact the unhealthy and detestable practice of adding corn syrup to everything, the basis for yet another public health crisis, came about because of overproduction of corn and the food mafia's ability to maximize profit by buying corn cheap and adding the syrup as empty calories.

We might also lower the rates of caner and other disease if we stopped packaging everything in plastic and concentrated on producing, packaging and distributing more food locally or at least regionally.

However, when American business must choose between more profit and less death they'll take more profit everytime.