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About that cane sugar.... [1]
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Date: 2025-07-26
A few years back, I was enjoying breakfast in a rural diner, which had recently changed owners, when I noticed four local farmers walk in, take their personalized cups from the wall, fill them from the pot, and surround the table they had undoubtedly occupied for some time. At that point, one of the boys picked up a packet of sugar from a bowl on the table, and read, “C and H Pure Cane Sugar.” As a group, they all stood and walked from the restaurant.
These were Idaho farmers, and one of their staple crops is sugar beets. 55% of American sugar is processed from beets, with Minnesota, Idaho, and the Dakotas being the largest producers. Many other states grow them in lessor quantities. Cane sugar is raised in Florida, Louisiana, and Hawaii. The USDA says there is no difference in the end products, as both are pure sucrose.
Once again, Donold, in his ignorance, unnecessarily rubs part of his constituency’s nose in the dirt. By specifying cane sugar be used in Coke, beet sugar is cast as a lesser product. Sorry, Idaho farmers, who voted for the king 4-1. The pResident doesn’t even know you exist.
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