Corn is the natural product that starts the base of nearly 80% of the food products that we consume on a regular basis. Farmers must overproduce in order to make up the financial losses that occur in the process of selling the corn to the distributors. Farmers get caught in this continuous cycle referred to as the Naylor Curve. The Naylor Curve described by Michael Pollan provides explanation behind why processed sweetener has overtaken the food industry. High fructose corn syrup is the derivative withdrawn from corn used to produce a cheap, fake sweetener. High fructose corn syrup is perhaps “tied with refined white sugar, because they contain empty calories (Mercado 1). This means that they are calories that do not confer any nutritional
