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Default What people eat around the world....

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> "l, not -l" > wrote
> > Mexico being a fairly large country, with several Coke bottlers, I suppose
> > it is a reach to say they only make Coke one way. However, several years
> > ago all of them switched to sugar only.

>
> They make what is profitable. Sugar is cheap in Mexico compared to the US.
> Thank the lobbyists for ADM.
> Hershey is moving to Mexico for the cheap sugar.


Yes, in the U.S. we pay 2 to 4 times the world price
for sugar due to price supports. That's why we are
losing our candy industry to Canada and Mexico.