Fructose is still fructose, and there's still almost as much of it in three tablespoons of Mom's Pure and Organic Clover Honey as there is in a can of soda.

That being said, this is more about politics than it is about health. The reason that we have corn syrup in so many products is because the industry has a huge political lobby. The companies involved, like Archer Daniels Midland, have for years been poster boys for government-corporate mutual backscratching. See also: the ethanol debacle.

In an open market, we would be seeing a lot more cane sugar in products, and probably at lower prices.

Most people eat too much of ALL sugars.