The Sugar Association, which represents the nation's sugar cane
and sugar beet farmers, has asked a federal court to dismiss a
claim to stifle freedom of speech advanced by several
conglomerates that manufacture the sweetener high fructose corn
syrup (HFCS).  Attorneys for the nonprofit trade group, who
filed their motion in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said
the corn processors' claim represents part of a "campaign to
silence all negative commentary about HFCS from the public
debate." The makers of HFCS who brought the claim on September 7
are Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Cargill, Ingredion, and Tate &
Lyle Ingredient Americas.  The filed motion to dismiss is
available at  The 25-page motion contrasts The Sugar
Association's own speech — largely editorial statements and news
releases posted on the organization's website — with the "lavish
advertising campaign" funded by the corn processors and at the
center of a lawsuit filed in April 2011, Western Sugar
Cooperative v. Archer-Daniels-Midland, Co. That