Comments on: High Fructose Corn Syrup: The Shocking Story Behind How It Came to Be http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/05/high-fructose-corn-syrup-the-shocking-story-behind-how-it-came-to-be/ Pull Up a Seat and Join the Conversation at Circle of Food Blog. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: anon. http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/05/high-fructose-corn-syrup-the-shocking-story-behind-how-it-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-159890 anon. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:07 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=812#comment-159890 I cannot believe that after all of the things that came out about what Mark Whitacre did, he could be represented, in any light, as a hero. Yes, the price fixing was wrong. It needed to end. But I have a hard time believing that someone like Whitacre, did anything out of the need to do what was right. Embezzlement was only the tip of the iceberg, when it came to his misdeeds. He is the type of person who would make up career-ending allegations against a colleague, on the basis of, greed, insanity, unwillingness to assume responsibility for his own misdeeds...my father worked with Mr. Whitacre, and while you may assume that I am biases, because I am his child, I can assure you that my father is one of the most honest, ethical, and hardest-working men I have ever met. He was also a biochemist, and while he had the smarts to scale the corporate ladder at a rate as fast as someone like Whitacre, he has always been interesting in research, product development, and just doing his job to the best of his ability. At one time, he even considered Mr. Whitacre to be a respected colleague. However, among his other self-serving misdeeds, Whitacre created false allegations of corporate sabotage. Why he did this, I am not sure, but certainly, when he began making these claims, he was either insane enough to not even realize that these types of allegations ruin the careers of innocent men, or else he just plain didn't care. A lot of it did get pinned on my dad, and I remember him losing sleep over it at night. Of course, in the end, it all comes out in the wash, and once everyoe figured out Whitacre was a nutcase and a thief, nobody took his word for Gospel anymore...and yet, my dad's career never recovered, after he was blamed for product failure and suspected of sabotage... I don't care if the whistle-blowing resulted in something nomenally good. To me, tattling alone does not a hero make, and all the stories of being a born-again Christian, and how God willed him to find another high-powered exec job, post release from prison, make me SICK. He will never be a hero, in the eyes of me, or anyone who was affected by his self-serving lies. I cannot believe that after all of the things that came out about what Mark Whitacre did, he could be represented, in any light, as a hero. Yes, the price fixing was wrong. It needed to end. But I have a hard time believing that someone like Whitacre, did anything out of the need to do what was right. Embezzlement was only the tip of the iceberg, when it came to his misdeeds. He is the type of person who would make up career-ending allegations against a colleague, on the basis of, greed, insanity, unwillingness to assume responsibility for his own misdeeds…my father worked with Mr. Whitacre, and while you may assume that I am biases, because I am his child, I can assure you that my father is one of the most honest, ethical, and hardest-working men I have ever met. He was also a biochemist, and while he had the smarts to scale the corporate ladder at a rate as fast as someone like Whitacre, he has always been interesting in research, product development, and just doing his job to the best of his ability. At one time, he even considered Mr. Whitacre to be a respected colleague. However, among his other self-serving misdeeds, Whitacre created false allegations of corporate sabotage. Why he did this, I am not sure, but certainly, when he began making these claims, he was either insane enough to not even realize that these types of allegations ruin the careers of innocent men, or else he just plain didn’t care. A lot of it did get pinned on my dad, and I remember him losing sleep over it at night. Of course, in the end, it all comes out in the wash, and once everyoe figured out Whitacre was a nutcase and a thief, nobody took his word for Gospel anymore…and yet, my dad’s career never recovered, after he was blamed for product failure and suspected of sabotage…

I don’t care if the whistle-blowing resulted in something nomenally good. To me, tattling alone does not a hero make, and all the stories of being a born-again Christian, and how God willed him to find another high-powered exec job, post release from prison, make me SICK. He will never be a hero, in the eyes of me, or anyone who was affected by his self-serving lies.

]]> By: Mary Johnson http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/05/high-fructose-corn-syrup-the-shocking-story-behind-how-it-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-159486 Mary Johnson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:03:26 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=812#comment-159486 Listen to the 2004 story covered by Ira Glass on "This American Life" http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168 Listen to the 2004 story covered by Ira Glass on “This American Life” http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168

]]> By: Mary Johnson http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/05/high-fructose-corn-syrup-the-shocking-story-behind-how-it-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-159484 Mary Johnson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:51:44 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=812#comment-159484 Update on "The Informant" movie - the release date is October 9, 2009. Here is the movie trailer http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/30/the-informant-movie-trailer/ I can't believe that it is being marketed as a comedy/farce! Yes, the book is true and the things Mark does are almost too unbelievable to be true, so in a way, I can see it. Update on “The Informant” movie – the release date is October 9, 2009. Here is the movie trailer http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/30/the-informant-movie-trailer/

I can’t believe that it is being marketed as a comedy/farce! Yes, the book is true and the things Mark does are almost too unbelievable to be true, so in a way, I can see it.

]]> By: at Circle of Food – Healthy Food Blog http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/05/high-fructose-corn-syrup-the-shocking-story-behind-how-it-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-155696 at Circle of Food – Healthy Food Blog Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:13:17 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=812#comment-155696 [...] Sometime back, I wrote a post about a guy I went to high school with, Mark Whitacre, former President of a subsidiary of ADM – Archer Daniels Midland, known as “The Supermarket to the World”.  He acted as a mole for the FBI, becoming a whistle blower to price fixing while he was an executive there.    Read the original post . [...] [...] Sometime back, I wrote a post about a guy I went to high school with, Mark Whitacre, former President of a subsidiary of ADM – Archer Daniels Midland, known as “The Supermarket to the World”.  He acted as a mole for the FBI, becoming a whistle blower to price fixing while he was an executive there.    Read the original post . [...]

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