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Quote:Sugar prices go vertical, to 28-year highs, on shortage fears

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Soaring prices for the commodity have raised alarm among U.S. food companies. A coalition including Kraft Foods and General Mills wants the Obama administration to increase sugar-import quotas, warning that the nation "will virtually run out of sugar" if restrictions aren’t eased.


NOT MY SUGAR :whaa:
Post Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:11 pm :: O NOES!!!!! Top
 
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This is due to the increase of Boylan sales.
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I thought HFCS has replaced almost all sugar used in food?
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In foods yes. In sugar, no.
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From the brief quote supplied, I thought Kraft and General Mills were concerned because they were using sugar in their foods.
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I don't need sugar I'm sweet enough
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Is it communist to raise or lift import limits?
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smapdi wrote: I don't need sugar I'm sweet enough


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mo' ron wrote: Is it communist to raise or lift import limits?


was it communist to impose limits in the first place? DO U NEED ME TO EXPLAIN THE FREE MARKET CONCEPT TO U
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Does that mean I get what they have for free?
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mo' ron wrote: Is it communist to raise or lift import limits?


was it communist to impose limits in the first place? DO U NEED ME TO EXPLAIN THE FREE MARKET CONCEPT TO U


I'm recalling this from memory, but I think this most of the current stuff was put in as limits after the Cuban revolution, as that is where most US sugar came from. Basically currently we pay twice the world market price or higher, and the program benefits a small number of remaining sugar producers/importers, and two largest are two Cuban exiles in Miami. They're brothers with separate companies, and one donates massive amounts of money to Republicans and the other to Democrats so that was they basically have all bases covered. And, of course, since the 80's the HFC business has taken up any slack in sweeteners so they don't want any return to large amounts of sugar.

I read this New Yorker article on the whole thing about five years ago, and as their articles are very long and in depth this is just kind of a summary, but the whole thing didn't leave a sweet taste in my mouth. What these two filthy ex-Batista mafiosos were getting away with was a total racket.

But otherwise I hate to inform everyone here that there is no "free market" and even before the Cuban Revolution sugar policy has been controlled by statute in some form since the late 1700's, so don't give me any of this conservatard "Founding Fathers" bullshit.
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Quote:Two prime movers behind the protests to the act were Samuel Adams and James Otis, both of Massachusetts. In August 1764, fifty Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury items, and in both Boston and New York there were movements to increase colonial manufacturing. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence, most notably in Rhode Island.[11]


RI = Roo Island?
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They have a little festival each year to commemorate said acts of violence.

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Fun fact: the striking logo on that site was originally digitized and animated in 1764.
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