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I disagree with a lot of you people in the comments section saying that the corn refiners association is protected by the first amendment in the same way a person is - but I do believe the content of these commercials is within their rights however misleading they try to be.
Fortunately, the corn refiners association basically screwed itself over by spending 30 million+ on their national campaign. It has been notoriously mocked on the internet and only brought the HFCS issue to to forefront of the news and our collective consciousness. The commercials seemed really fake and corporate - not exactly the way to convince people nowadays.
They have paved the way for new beverage companies to emerge and fill the consumer need for an alternative to high fructose corn syrup - I've seen many new websites dedicated to this issue, like stophfcs.com and vivi
as the issue gets more attention and more products emerge as alternatives, people will begin to shift towards healthier products.