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few quotes or paragraphs from the source, or both. If the source was found on the web, you will also
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These are the places I went in order to collect information and decided were the best sites to use for my information. I collected information my importance through color coding highlighter witch was really helpful to organize my ideas.

Beil, Laura. "Sweet Confusion: Does High Fructose Corn Syrup Deserve Such A Bad Rap?." Science News 183.11 (2013): 22-25. Health Source - Consumer Edition. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.

This was the one I used the most, it was a fantastically organized document that went into detail on both the up and down's of high fructose corn syrup, some of the obvious thing and some things we never think about. This includes important points I highlighted such as:

• "Some caution that public opinion has gotten ahead of science and that fructose tunnel vision may distract us from the complex causes of the country's obesity crisis. The phrase on food labels says 'made with natural sugar' is a popularly interpreted as healthier as in 'no high fructose corn syrup.' In truth the consumption of high fructose corn syrup has been falling since 2004. Yet obesity rates remain high."
• "Perhaps chief among the concerns over fructose are its effects on the liver, which is the first stop after sugar leaves the intestine. The liver either absorbs sugar or allows it to pass into the bloodstream to be turned into energy for the brain, muscles and other organs. But it matters what kind of sugar it is. Table sugar, or sucrose, is a bound dimer of glucose and fructose, which means the two sugar molecules are locked arm in arm until broken apart by the intestine."
• "...says John Sievenpiper, a nutrition researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. People are not only consuming more calories from fructose, they are consuming more calories period. Weight gain alone poses serious health risks, Sievenpiper and others point out, regardless of where the extra calories come from."
• The result: When people eat the same number of calories of any carbohydrate, “it doesn’t look like the fructose is behaving differently,” he says. But when volunteers consume more energy from fructose than they burn, the sugar does appear to cause weight gain. It’s hard to tell, however, whether that’s because of the fructose or just the overabundance of calories, Sievenpiper says.

"High-Fructose Corn Syrup--a High-Calorie Artificial Sweetener (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 26 July 2010. Web. 4 Nov. 2013. <http://www.2facts.com/article/ib150402>.

• Many critics have lately opposed the inclusion of HFCS in so many foods and drinks, insisting that the increased use of the sweetener might be linked to a rise in obesity in the U.S. The opposition has become so widespread that several products, such as Gatorade and some salad dressings, have made conscious efforts to use sugar instead of HFCS. Warner notes, "What started as a narrow movement by proponents of natural and organic foods has morphed into a swell of mainstream opposition." 
• Some defenders of HFCS have argued that, were companies to substitute sugar for HFCS in their products, people might be misled into thinking that sugar was actually healthy. Some breakfast cereal manufacturers, for example, have started advertising on their boxes that their products contain "organic cane sugar." Additionally, Pepsi Cola has replaced HFCS with sugar under its Pepsi Throwback brand. Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, a trade group representing the interests of the corn industry, argues, "Companies are trying to suggest that their products are now more natural and healthier when in fact they've changed nothing…. A sugar is a sugar, and that's what we need to get people to understand."

"Update: Farm Subsidies." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 8 Aug. 2008. Web. 28 Oct. 2013. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i1300430>.

• Critics of farm subsidies say: Current subsidies primarily benefit large corporate farmers who are already turning a profit. They also harm farmers in developing countries by driving down prices, and make those countries reluctant to drop trade barriers of their own.
• Supporters of farm subsidies say: Subsidies are needed to cover the high risks of farming in the face of economic and environmental challenges, and to maintain a viable food supply in the U.S. and abroad. They are also needed to counteract the economic impact of other countries' subsidies.
• Critics of the current farm subsidies system challenge the idea that it is meant to benefit struggling, small-scale farmers. In reality, they say, while some of those farmers do receive support, the main beneficiaries of farm subsidies are large farming interests. Around two-thirds of U.S. farmers do not receive any subsidies, they note. That is due to a variety of reasons, they say; for one thing, farmers who raise certain crops or farm part-time are not eligible. Farm subsidies have strayed from what they were originally intended to be--a form of relief for needy farmers--and have become a form of "corporate welfare," they charge. In fact, critics say, the large farms that receive subsidies generally do not need them to survive. Those farms tend to be financially secure enough to be able to operate without government help, they maintain. There is no reason that taxpayers should be subsidizing wealthy farmers, they assert. At the very least, Congress should follow Bush's suggestion that farmers who make $200,000 or more be ineligible for subsidies, they say.
• Critics also place some of the blame for unhealthy American eating habits on the government subsidization of particular food crops at the expense of others. While growers of fruits and vegetables receive very little government support, other crops are heavily subsidized, making them cheap and therefore more desirable to be used as ingredients in processed foods, they contend. One often-cited example is the prevalence ofhigh-fructose corn syrup, a common food additive that nutritionists consider fattening and unhealthy. Becausecorn is so highly subsidized, high-fructose corn syrup is used as a low-cost ingredient in many foods. Daniel Imhoff, author of Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, describes one of the effects of the recent farm bill as "[t]he continuation of America's obesity campaign, which ensures the cheapest and most widely available foods are made up of such high-calorie ingredients as high-fructose corn syrup, refined flours, saturated fats and unhealthy meat and dairy products."

"Sugar vs. corn syrup: sweeteners at center of bitter food fight." Reuters. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 5 Sept. 2012. Web. 28 Oct. 2013

• Corn refiners had asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow them to call HFCS "corn sugar" but were rejected. They then tried marketing corn syrup as "natural" and asserted that human bodies could not detect a difference between HFCS and sugar. The sugar industry sued them for making false claims.
• High fructose corn syrup is derived from corn and is used in many foods and drinks. It is cheaper than natural sugar, which comes from sugarbeets or sugarcane. The United States is the biggest consumer and manufacturer of HFCS. The sweetener was added to beverages such as Coca-Cola in the 1980s, but in recent years food makers have been trying out a return to sugar after some studies linked corn syrup to obesity.
• Both high fructose corn syrup and processed sugar are nutritionally equivalent and consumers have a right to this information," said David Knowles, a spokesman for the Corn Refiners Association, commenting on behalf of Cargill, ADM, Ingredion and Tate & Lyle. "At the end of the day, the focus should be on the critical fact that high fructose corn syrup is a form of added sugar, and that consumers should watch their intake of all added sugars, regardless of source."