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Still Sour: Sugar Politics vs. Health and the Economy | City Brights: Steve Heilig | an SFGate.com
blog.sfgate.com | Apr 10, 2012
Even Adam Smith, a founder of modern economics and free market theory, held that sugar is Still Sour: Sugar Politics vs. Health and the Economy

Sugar vs. corn syrup: A court battle over the semantics of sweetness | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com | Mar 29, 2012
From the blog The Lookout: A group of corn refiners asked a federal judge in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought against them by the sugar industry, which contends corn syrup makers are misleading consumers with advertising that claims high fructose corn syrup product

PhotoBlog - Haitians in Dominican Republic sugar plantations live anonymous lives
photoblog.msnbc.msn.com | Mar 1, 2012
A batey is the name given those communities that reside inside sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic that are comprised mainly of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Mitr Phol Takes Controlling Stake in MSF Sugar - Deal Journal Australia - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com | Feb 7, 2012
Thailand's Mitr Phol Sugar Corp. has received commitments for 57.69% of Australia's MSF Sugar for its A$4.45-a-share takeoveroffer that values MSF at A$313 million, the two companies reported in a joint statement Tuesday.

Should We Regulate Sugar? - NYTimes.com
parenting.blogs.nytimes.com | Feb 2, 2012
Dr. Robert Lustig and his co-authors call on the government to class sugar with tobacco and alcohol.

Government should support ethanol production | New Zimbabwe Blog
www.newzimbabwe.com | Jan 30, 2012
RECENT news that Green Fuel, a pioneering Zimbabwean ethanol processing company, is currently sitting on 8 million litres of ethanol (E10) in their storage facilities due to a slow uptake by the market sounds like irresponsible economic suicide.

Sugar cane ethanol the key for electric vehicles | TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk
www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk | Oct 26, 2011
According to a new study at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil, if sugar cane is used as the feedstock to produce ethanol and electricity for the same final use then only four per cent of the world\'s available cropland area would be needed to power a global fleet of hybrid and electric cars.

High Sugar Prices May Be Sweet For Illinois | NBC Chicago
www.nbcchicago.com | Oct 19, 2011
Sen. Mark Kirk argues sugar price supports drove confectioners out of Chicago. But they also created a demand for high fructose corn syrup -- which has been satisfied with Illinois corn.

The role of biofuels in the energy future: Lessons from Brazil « The Berkeley Blog
blogs.berkeley.edu | Sep 23, 2011
To further understand biofuels, I decided to travel to Brazil, where the modern biofuel industry has started and flourished. I believe that before you develop a model, you need to speak with the people that know what is going on to have a realistic perspective. Therefore I went with Madhu Khanna

Food Industry Pitted Against Public Health At U.N. Summit : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
www.npr.org | Sep 21, 2011
At the first United Nations General Assembly session on chronic diseases this week, public health advocates questioned whether food companies should be treated as partners when making policy on chronic disease.