Your Tax Dollars At Work

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics

I’m pretty bummed out after reading The Monsanto Papers and watching Into The Weeds. I found some links to dive even deeper into this sickening and upsetting content, because sometimes I just have to stare into the eye of Sauron, know what I mean?

So I found this interesting article from The Guardian, which more and more looks like the last source of true journalism left in the world…

Pleased to Meet You

Hope you guess my name.

We’ve all heard that Rolling Stones song a million times: Sympathy for the Devil.

Today’s post is about sugar — and all the names that particular devil hides behind. Take a look … then go look at the ingredients panel on a few items in your kitchen.

● Agave juice

● Agave nectar

● Agave syrup

● Beet sugar

● Blackstrap molasses

● Brown rice syrup

● Brown sugar

● Buttered syrup

● Cane juice

● Cane juice crystals

● Cane sugar

● Cane syrup

● Caramel

● Carob syrup

● Castor sugar

● Coconut sugar

● Confectioners’ sugar

● Corn glucose syrup

● Corn syrup

● Corn syrup solids

● Crystalline fructose

● Date sugar/syrup

● Demerara sugar

● Dextrose

● Drimol

● Ethyl maltol

● Evaporated cane juice

● Flo malt

● Florida crystals

● Fructose

● Fructose corn syrup

● Fructose syrup

● Fructose sweetener

● Fruit fructose

● Fruit juice

● Fruit juice concentrates

● Glucose

● Glucose solids

● Glucose syrup

● Golden sugar

● Golden syrup

● Granular sweetener

● Granulated sugar

● Grape sugar

● High fructose corn syrup

● Honey

● Honibake

● Icing sugar

● Inverted sugar

● Isoglucose

● Isomaltulose

● Kona-ame

● Maize syrup

● Malt syrup

● Maltodextrin

● Maltose

● Maple

● Maple sugar

● Maple syrup

● Mizu-ame

● Molasses

● Muscovado sugar

● Nulomoline

● Panela sugar

● Powdered sugar

● Raw sugar

● Refiner’s syrup

● Rice syrup

● Sorghum syrup

● Starch sweetener

● Sucanat

● Sucrovert

● Sugar beet

● Treacle or treacle sugar

● Turbinado sugar

● Unrefined sugar

● Yellow sugar

Sugar Alcohols:

● Erythritol

● Hydrogenated starch hydrolysates

● Isomalt

● Lactitol

● Maltitol

● Mannitol

● Sorbitol

● Xylitol

Puzzlin’ you is the nature of my game!