CRA Uses Mother Jones Exposé in Its Fight Against Big Sugar

In a move that Mother Jones magazine calls “surreal,” The Corn Refiners
Association (CRA) has issued a press release using the magazine’s recently
published exposé “Big Sugar’s Sweet Lies” as a “cudgel” in CRA’s battle with the
sugar industry. The exposé outlines the alleged decades-long efforts by the
U.S. sugar industry to influence the debate about the health effects of sugar
compared to high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), and CRA apparently believes it
helps its case.

In the article “Are High-Fructose Corn Syrup Makers in Denial?,”Mother Jones author Michael Mechanic writes, “The corn refiners should be sending flowers, not subpoenas, to the Sugar Association. After all, the association’s decades-long campaign to bury evidence suggesting that its product plays a role in the ‘death-dealing diseases’—as revealed in our story—has benefited the makers of HFCS as well. If the corn refiners imagine that our exposé somehow left them looking good, well, I’ve got some evaporated cane juice to sell them.”