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On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:54:20 -0400, jmcquown >
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> On 7/11/2014 3:27 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> > On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:32:51 AM UTC-7, sf wrote:
> >> Want to know why we pay so much for sugar? Farm subsidies, that's
> >>
> >> why.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The One Percent (documentary)
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc
> >>

> >
> > I have pretty much given up sugar. I have a little 2 lb box in my cupboard for guests who think they need it in their beverages. I don't use that stuff any more.
> >
> >

> The only thing I really use sugar for is to make sugar water for the
> hummingbird feeder.
>

People here can be high and mighty... all, what - 15 of us (and a few
of them are duplicates)? We're old and many here have diabetes, but
somebody is buying it and they are buying a lot of it.


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