date:Dec 20, 2018
me part of the much larger farm bill, making it even harder to carry out reforms. And as the years went by, the contrivances used to prop up the sugar industry have multiplied, encompassing non-recourse loans; a complex system of tariffs; and even a means of diverting surplus sugar into ethanol production.
In making sugar far more expensive within the U.S., this system of subsidies and supports has had all manner of strange consequences. High-fructose corn syrup, for example, came into widespre