I’m won­dering if all the people on Face­book who have recently “fanned” the ban on high fruc­tose corn syrup really believe it should be banned. This seems to me to be quite sim­ilar to saying “let’s ban cig­a­rettes” or “let’s ban McDon­alds”. While I agree HFCS is not good for people and I per­son­ally avoid foods that include it, I do so as an edu­cated con­sumer who made a con­scious deci­sion that is part of a larger effort to improve my health. Ban­ning HFCS (or any­thing else) isn’t going to solve any­thing. Edu­cating people might. And if that’s what this par­tic­ular little fan­group is all about, then hooray. Ban­ning things because their bad for you is at best inef­fec­tive and at worst a slip­pery slope. And it won’t really change the way people eat. Isn’t that really the heart of the problem?