That looks like a pretty expensive machine. I know I could not afford it nor your typical third world grower of sugar. Even with this advantage the SUGAR BARONS are afraid of people in other lands who have to grow and harvest sugar with their bare hands, whose meager income is barely keeping them alive. Afraid because tropical lands are better suited to growing sugar and their state enforced monopoly would coming crashing down if simple competiton from these truly destitute folks was allowed. If you can't even compete with these folks in backward lands living under corrupt regimes, why should the American consumer foot the bill?
Sorry but the SUGAR BARONS are the ones who use slave or close to slave labor to harvest their crops. Do you believe the workers shown in the Domincan Republic own their farms or work for a multinational? Who is the SUGAR BARON in that case?
American farmers mechanize to save money and to produce santitary, high quality crops. They pay people sufficient wages so that they can be contributors to our economy too. Do the SUGAR BARONS in the Dominican Republic offer the same clean, high quality product and provide good stable jobs as well, or do they exploit people who do not have a Bill of Rights or Constitutional government to protect them?