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.”
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
Don’t forget about rising sea levels and flooding. Florida’s in for a tough 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.
But who will farm all the sugar when the illegals [sic] are in alligator whatever
Easy, let them out of Alligator Auschwitz on work release. Now you don’t even have to pay them! (I wish /s)