This is all bs; I don't believe any reason they give for any increase in price any more
They’ve lied and misconstrued the truth for so long, why believe them now
Isn't a lot of sugar harvested by immigrants who don't make even minimum wage? (In Florida)
A lot? Sure
Most refined sugar in the US actually comes from beets produced in Minnesota and Idaho though and not sugar cane.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry_of_the_United_States
Hol' up...
Prices for sugar were this high in 2011, so prices went up on sweets back then as well? Did they go back down and now they're going back up?
I bet they didn't...
Oh look, another articles explaining why prices are going up faster than inflation. Except it didn’t actually explain anything and just tries to make it seem like it isn’t “greed”.
I'm okay with having less sugar in our foods, if this is what it takes.
Seriously, it should be classified as a drug. Kills so many
My grandma tried it once and thought she could fly. Threw herself straight off the Queensboro Bridge.
And all the other foods are going to follow.
Ah, well. Humans had a good run. Looks like we found our great filter.
I wish we didn't have to take out so many other species with us.
Good news is that the Earth will stabilise once we're not around to fuck it up.
Hopefully
Plenty of crops will grow just fine well through the future history of climate change. They may not be the ones people want to eat, but they will if they have to. This isn't going to cause humans to go extinct, but it will not be a pleasant life for our descendants who will be forced to only eat very hardy crops which probably don't taste very good.
We've been needing to switch to vertical agriculture to save on land usage anyways. This will only acceleration certain industries to do so.
Humans had a good run.
Humans had a run.
I wonder if corn syrup prices will go up as well.
Probably not by any significant amount in the US thanks to subsidies.
I see this as a good thing. Now I can loose weight.
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