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  ISU: more than corn and soy

  Lotti's suspicions of the "Iowa State University signs dispelling the obesity-high-fructose corn syrup link by pointing out that "High Fructose Corn Syrup has made sweet confections more readily available at a lower cost," are not unfounded, but there is more to this picture.

  To be sure, Iowa State University (ISU) has historically led the way in developing much of the technology and knowledge embedded in the industrial food system that we are now trying to reform.  Nevertheless, ISU does not deserve the label of food system villain.  ISU students, researchers, and professors are not a homogeneous group of productionist agriculturalists looking to plant "fence row to fence row".  Many of us here at ISU are doing our fair share (and more) in the necessary work of reforming our food system.  From agronomy to sociology, ISU is advancing the leading edge of agricultural reform as rapidly as any other institution.  In fact, ISU is home to the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture, the only graduate program offering degreed in sustainable agriculture in the country.

  Matthew Hoffman - Graduate student of rural sociology and sustainable agriculture at Iowa State University
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