Keep in mind that high government price supports for sugar and an embargo for Cuban sugar mean that HFCS is the preferred sweetener for the US. Mexican soda pop is made with real sugar (we buy it occasionally from the barrio stores here in Fresno).
Many candy companies and other food manufacturers (what a strange term!) have relocated to Canada to take advantage of lower sugar prices there. I don’t know if Lustig and Swan mentioned that or knew about it.
Thanks for telling me about it, all I really know about sugar imports is that the major food companies in the USA have written to the administration stating that the price of sugar is becoming so very high, due to the import restrictions, that soon the prices of all foods will skyrocket.
More & more Americans will cook from scratch in the future, as processed foods will be out of their price range.
I have a feeling that both Lustig and Johnson have to be VERY circumspect in whatever they happen to state about high fructose corn syrup.
It's just appalling how many, IN MY OPINION, obviously FAKE postings were made all over the web about how safe that HFCS is; IMNSHO, they were so obviously made by people paid to post them, it was so obvious and so corny to me, at least, that's how they read.
THANKS, again, seriously -- now I know that if I do searches on "sugar embargo" & Cuba, and "price supports" - Sugar -- that I can finally learn more about the politics & money of this issue.
Sometimes one just doesn't have any idea where to begin the search, ya know??? I was definitely at a loss, although very interested.
Somewhere, somehow, I've no idea where, I read something about that cancer NEEDS sugar to replicate, and that without any type of any sugar, that cancer cells cannot survive -- so it means NO glucose, NO dextrose, NO sucrose, NO fructrose, etc/etc/etc
Does that ring a bell?