Coca-Cola’s move comes a week after the White House issued a statement by President Trump saying he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup in its signature drink.
Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode predicts that an increase in using U.S. cane sugar will lead to a rise in foreign cane sugar imports.
Bode said in a statement to NPR, “Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and expand the trade deficit.”
What about sugarbeets? Can’t the US grow those?
Yes, sugar beets used to be a staple in some areas I’ve lived in the Midwest, they’ll definitely grow here
I’m sure they could, hell, we grow them in Canada, that’s what Roger’s Sugar uses. Probably not as profitable as corn, especially with the biofuel subsidies.