Free Soda Refill Can Be A Federal Offense

Tracking the history of corn in American agriculture, the film shows how U.S. Agricultural Secretary Earl Butz, under Richard Nixon, changed U.S. farm policy to one based on increased production, planting corn “fence row to fence row.”

Corn ethanol contributes to rises in food prices because of competition for arable land to grow food. With more corn for biofuels taking up that space, the price of grains and other agricultural products increases.

For many in the developing world, rising prices mean they don’t eat. People in poor countries, especially in import-heavy sub-Saharan Africa, feel the impact of rising food prices far worse than in developed countries. This is because they spend so much more of their income on food….Poor people do not have that luxury. As the UN Reported (in October), 26 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, are still at extreme risk of hunger, with biofuels playing a significant role in exacerbating the problem.

A crime seems like a rather harsh word though. It seems that whether or not this was criminal lies in Christopher's behavior rather than his actual actions that fateful day.

I can't believe he had the Bawls to think he could just get a Pepsi Free. But it's sad that the VA didn't even have the Moxie to allow him to just pay his Tab. ;_; To compound things, the loss of the job must have been a total Crush. :/

Oh crap, not page 2 yet. Too early for the stupid puns? @_@;;

EDIT: Thanks, Chaosx, for the page! ^^

I can't believe he had the Bawls to think he could just get a Pepsi Free. But it's sad that the VA didn't even have the Moxie to allow him to just pay his Tab. ;_; To compound things, the loss of the job must have been a total Crush. :/

If it really was the Chief of Police then it was an obvious trap. The cafeteria had had enough of this guy and complained to the cops. I mean really, you could ask that question to every shop owner that catches a kid shoplifting, why not let him go so he can rip off other shops?

That's the thing: it's not strictly about the money so much as confronting the crime. The money is the crime, but the reaction is to the action: blatant theft and the habit that informs it.

And now he's trying to get his 15 minutes.

And you're helping. How does that make you feel?

I'm not being cute, by the way. I often struggle with the problem of acknowledging an attention ***.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Behind the label: There's little redeeming nutritional value to HFCS, the ubiquitous sweetener added to everything from bread to salad dressing. It provides empty calories, which promote obesity, it's been linked to heart disease, and the manufacturing process has the potential to contaminate it with brain-damaging mercury (find out the surprising healthy food that mercury could be lurking in). Yet HFCS still shows up in so-called "natural" foods. Back in 2008, the FDA decided that, due to the highly industrialized process used to create HFCS, using the sweetener in products labeled "natural" was deceptive and misleading. But after backlash from the Corn Refiners Association, the agency reversed that decision two months later.

Your move: Few nutritionists out there would agree with the Corn Refiners Association's assertion that HFCS is "natural," but since they don't make the rules, it's up to you to read labels. HFCS is very common in "low-fat" foods, so read ingredient lists.

Specifically, they found that when bees are exposed to the enzyme p-coumaric, their immune system appears stronger—it turns on detoxification genes. P-coumaric is found in pollen walls, not nectar, and makes its way into honey inadvertently via sticking to the legs of bees as they visit flowers. Similarly, the team discovered other compounds found in poplar sap that appear to do much the same thing. It all together adds up to a diet that helps bees fight off toxins, the researchers report. Taking away the honey to sell it, and feeding the bees high-fructose corn syrup instead, they claim, compromises their immune systems, making them more vulnerable to the toxins that are meant to kill other bugs.

Address that anything lacking the full spectrum of essential vitamins and minerals(read: everything) meets that definition of "obesity-promoting", that they don't seem to understand what constitutes "empty calories", or that "natural" is entirely arbitrary in any nutritional theater

Decisions, decisions

HFCS is two naturally occurring monosaccharides on a hot day that just so happens to be in a lot of ***that made you fat and unhappy. It's probably time to find an obsession that's supported by medical science or entry level biology

Did someone's posts get deleted? How the hell did this shift into bad science and media propaganda about HFCS again?

Theft is theft, period. I don't really care how much he was fined, and this isn't a case of a person losing their job because of their opinion/sexual orientation/whatever, this a person that lost their job for committing a crime. Repeatedly. He probably thought the VA cafeteria was an easy mark, like I said, shoplifters aren't first timers. Even if he didn't, he got busted. Too bad.

Easy mark? Dude it was soda from a fountain.... seriously? Any real shoplifter takes items not a soda refill. Is your history perfectly clean? I've never met a person in my life who hasn't tried short-cutting something in their lives, are you perfect to snub others like that?
Personally, I can not remember the last time I ate at a place and they charged for refills, I'm not gonna look for signs either. That could have easily been me. Let me help ya a lil with info. A soda bag can cost 15-25 dollars a bag depending on size and can easily push out 200 cups of soda.... (at avg, 2 bucks for soda, do the math)who's feeling sorry for the hospital? Not me. Let the guy pay and call it done, he admitted he'd done it before at the same token he had paid for a meal which let's face it, they made their money on that food and I dun have to be there to see the pricing.

Let me help ya a lil with info. A soda bag can cost 15-25 dollars a bag depending on size and can easily push out 200 cups of soda.... (at avg, 2 bucks for soda, do the math)who's feeling sorry for the hospital?

When it comes to fines for theft it really should at most be a reimbursement of 2x what was taken. 525$ for an 85cent refill or even in the case of pirating music 250k for a 10$ album is a bit absurd.

Easy mark? Dude it was soda from a fountain.... seriously? Any real shoplifter takes items not a soda refill. Is your history perfectly clean? I've never met a person in my life who hasn't tried short-cutting something in their lives, are you perfect to snub others like that?
Personally, I can not remember the last time I ate at a place and they charged for refills, I'm not gonna look for signs either. That could have easily been me. Let me help ya a lil with info. A soda bag can cost 15-25 dollars a bag depending on size and can easily push out 200 cups of soda.... (at avg, 2 bucks for soda, do the math)who's feeling sorry for the hospital? Not me. Let the guy pay and call it done, he admitted he'd done it before at the same token he had paid for a meal which let's face it, they made their money on that food and I dun have to be there to see the pricing.