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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Sugar and Politics
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 00:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 00:56:00 1985
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Nf-From: ima!johnl    Sep 15 00:56:00 1985


If you really want the sugar back in your Coke, don't waste time
bothering the Coca-Cola company.  Write to your congressmen and
senators and tell them that to repeal the price supports for sugar.
The U.S. wholesale price for sugar is about three times the world
price due to the sugar price supports, which used to make sense when
there was some worry about being cut off (40 years ago) from foreign
sugar sources, but are now archaic subsidies for the small group of
midwestern sugar beet farmers.

If Coke bottlers could get sugar at the world price, they'd never waste
their time with fructose syrup -- see if any Coke outside the U.S.
is sweetened with anything but sugar.

Yours in free trade and the Real Thing,
John Levine

PS:  On a completely irrelevant note, don't miss "The Coca-Cola Kid" at
your local art movie.  It's a scream.