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Kris Coward () wrote:
> > >
> > The grain lobby (ADM, Cargil, etc) has been working on ethanol
> > conversion for years, the sugar lobby hasn't.
>
> There's a sugar lobby in the US? I thought that ever since the Cuban
> revolution, sugar has existed only as a consumer good, and consequently
> can't really build much of a lobby.
:-) the story of corn syrup vs sugar is worth reading. Manning's
books _Against the Grain_ offers a readable version of the shady
history of ADM. a more complete story is told in _Rats in the Grain_,
which alas is not nearly so readable.
sorry this is drifting a bit OT but it is in my bailiwick (agriculture,
sustainability) so I succumbed to the temptation to chime in.
de
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