Have a Coke and a … GMO?

Politico ^ | 28 Oct 2013 | Bill Tomson

[Toddsterpatriot]

Actually....it’s your fellow Free Trade Liberals that put in the restrictions on imported sugar in NAFTA

Sorry, Charlie, the sugar restrictions predate NAFTA.

How do ya like your GMO HFCS now? LOL!

[SeminoleCounty]

No...sugar restrictions are specifically included in NAFTA....read the Agreement

Judging from your posts....you folks from DU who troll over here probably don’t read

[real saxophonist]

One of my best friends served aboard USS BATFISH SSN-681. So I know where y’all are coming from.

[Secret Agent Man]

i stopped’driking coke.

i switched back to old school pepsi, with the old logo, and made from sugar.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Let's try again, the sugar restrictions predate NAFTA.

You see, the sugar guys got the politicians to restrict sugar imports......BEFORE NAFTA.

So if you're blaming NAFTA for them, you're a little late to the party.

Mexico's U.S. Sugar Quota: Mexico's annual U.S. sugar quota prior to NAFTA was approximately 8,000 tons, raw value. This quota reflected Mexico's status as a net importer of sugar. While Mexico's sugar production was roughly 3.2 million tons, sugar consumption growth outstripped sugar production growth, leaving Mexico with the requirement of a relatively large sugar import demand.

In the initial deliberations of the North American Free Trade discussions, Mexico requested a 1.65 million ton quota allocation in the U.S. market. Mexico's quota request of 1.65 million tons, raw value, exceeded the 1.52 million ton quota allocated by the United States to all foreign quota recipients (40 nations) for the 1991-92 quota year. Such a large Mexican quota would have required zero quota allocations to all other foreign nations under the provisions of the 1990 Farm Bill, which required a minimum of 1.25 million tons of U.S. sugar quota to friendly foreign nations. It was unlikely that Congress would ever endorse a NAFTA proposal to concentrate our foreign sugar quotas into the hands of one nation, irrespective of our friendly status with Mexico.

Provisions and Additional Access Granted to U.S. Market PRE-NAFTA HISTORY

If you still don't understand, on account of all the big words, I'll be happy to translate this down to your 4th grade reading level.

[1Texas gal]

In case you weren’t aware of it, pepsi has been using embryonic stem cells to research the ‘taste’ of pepsi. according to this website

http://www.realfarmacy.com/pepsico-says-it-will-halt-use-of-aborted-fetal-cells-in-flavor-research/

they have discontinued that practice. Coke hasn’t used unborn baby cells and I have just kept drinking good ol’ Coke.

[tinamina]

I think the main crops affected by GMOs are corn, soy, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya wheat and alfalfa. So the sugar would most likely have to come from cane sugar to be non GMO.
But I agree, if this labeling law would force Coke to go back to using cane sugar it I might even buy one once in a while.
It would eventually be a very good thing to ensure the quality of our foodstuffs in the USA and maybe even help with some of the diseases which are running rampant in the USA today, such as diabetes and celiac and ADHD. Heaven knows Obamacare is not going to help.
I live in WA and I just voted yes on 522.

[cmsgop]

Good Job, so did I...