• Grist, Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10 AM

Commentator Tom Philpott said he saw the spot, aired by a group called "Americans Against Food Taxes" and funded by companies like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, fast-food companies like McDonald's, and beverage giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The ad's message, per Philpott, is that government should stop "trying to control what we eat and drink." He finds the ad ironic because the government's '70's-era cheap-corn policy is what brought us to high-fructose corn syrup in the first place.

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