[Toddsterpatriot]

Pay higher prices, for the farmers!!

[Toddsterpatriot]

Because of the high cost of sugar, jobs are lost in industries that use sugar in large quantities. Last year a Commerce Department study found that restricting sugar imports led to a loss of 10,000 jobs in candy manufacturing and noted that for every one job saved in the sugar industry, three jobs were lost in the confectionery industry.

Look at this. Trade restrictions caused a loss of jobs. And we got higher prices in the bargain.

[sinclair]

Oh yes, we really should allow more foreign sugar into our country after all it goes so well with the pet food and toothpaste and mercury tainted fish we allow in now.

[TChris]

What?

Say it ain't so! Government price controls mess up the market?

Who'd a thunk it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Some of the wealthiest farmers in the US are sugar beet growers in western MN/the Dakotas.

[sittnick]

I suspect that the corn industry actually supports the sugar price supports,as it means more high fructose corn syrup used in everything. They are 100x as powerful as the sugar lobby.

[UnklGene]

[NonValueAdded]

Have they factored in the impact of the ethanol boondoggle? Doesn’t ethanol come at the expense of high fructose corn syrup? Might we se a return to sugar as the sweetener of choice?

[UnklGene]

Lard with sugar makes great sandwiches!

[etcb]

I am curious to see if the president and those representatives who believe we must have unlimited foreign labor will support unlimited sugar imports. After all, it will only be used to sweeten those products Americans won’t sweeten!!!

[ikka]

Some of you may remember during the Clinton Era of Fraud and Deceit, that they correlated Monica's memory of phone calls made while she was in the Oval Office with phone records.

One of the big shots Clinton was on the phone with that Monica remembered?

A member of the Fanjul family, they make millions per year from Florida sugar.

[manic4organic]

I don’t buy products with HFCS. I also try not to buy anything with added sugar. It’s in the goofiest things like salsa, salad dressings, etc., where it is absolutely unnecessary.

[montag813]

Aren’t these “poor” farmers making a killing over the price of corn and the ridiculous mania over Ethanol? Why should we feel sorry for them?

[gunservative]

Gee, I thought annexing Hawaii in 1898 was going to keep the cost of sugar down! (/sarc)

[maine-iac7]

Myself, I’d rather pay a little extra for good old fashioned sugar in soda’s, candies, cookies and just about everything that now contains the poison, fattening man=make concoction, High Fructose Corn Syrup = the studies on it are alarming - but you won’t hear the FDA or any other government entity warn you =- because it’s big money for Big Business - High Fructose Corn Syrup has an almost ‘forever’ shelf life = that’s the bottom line. (But, even those HFCS is less expensive for the manufactures, when did ever notice that savings was passed on to us?

Here’s a couple links - but do your own research. (If you drew a chart showing the climb of the use of HFCS in the past 2-3 decades and a chart of the increase in obesity, diabetes etc = they would be pretty identical..

http://www.sprol.com/?p=236

http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston13.html

http://www.newstarget.com/001054.html

[The Great RJ]

The reason why high fructose corn syrup has replaced sugar in many products is the high domestic cost of sugar caused by these subsidies and price supports for US sugar beet farmers. However, now with government subsidized corn based ethanol, corn prices and thus HFCS are on the rise. Either way the US consumer pays through the nose. Perhaps one day sugar will again be back in our Coke if we can afford to buy one.

[headsonpikes]

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