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.”
dont drink calories
Don’t drink non-alcoholic calories
Only time in my life I got fat was from making my afternoon coffee loaded with 1/4 cup of sugar every day.
dont tell me what to do
I don’t think a lot of legal food can be considered poison, but both HFCS and sugar soda are really close. Also any other drink with heaps of sugar dumped into it. If you had to pour 40-50g of sugar into your glass you would likely not do it, but when someone else does it for you, you don’t have to think about it.
Florida is a huge sugar producer. The head office of Florida Crystals was in the same building in West Palm at the end of Clematis where I worked. The CEO would park his Ferrari FF in the cul de sac. This is nearly within view of Mar a Lago.
Well in 20 years Florida managed to lose about 90% of its oranges supposedly, and the Tomatoes were down 27% from 2023-2024.
Florida and California were 2 huge growers when it came to fruit… at this point though any practices made to attempt to save their growers would probably be hit with issues coming from Trump/Desantis pushing to arrest all the people working there.
Throw in reduced tourism and I imagine Florida may see some more struggles in the near future
Definitely, add in the soaring property taxes and HOA fees and the insurance debacle also. Happy I got out of there in 2018.
Anyone who thought deporting construction workers was going to do anything other than raise construction and therefore home owners insurance costs was a fool.
Don’t forget about rising sea levels and flooding. Florida’s in for a tough future.
Couldn’t happen to a better state. Fuck them.
But who will farm all the sugar when the illegals [sic] are in alligator whatever
Fuck HFCS & the US sugar program: they’re the textbook example of US protectionist policies that cost the US more than the benefits
The Department of Agriculture administers the U.S. sugar program to support domestic sugar production through tools such as limiting the supply of sugar.
The program creates higher sugar prices, which cost consumers more than producers benefit, at an annual cost to the economy of around $1 billion per year.
and reduce employment in industries dependent on sugar while fucking everyone’s health with shittier HFCS.
But but but, we’re making America healthy again.
So will we have to call it Mexican-American Coke?
Canadian coke is also sugar based so really you can just call it “modern coke”
Gonna be super fun with all y’all’s tarrifs tho
But I think it was originally sugar and they switched to HFCS because corn subsidies.
If so, then this is old coke.
Dr. Epstein
