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Old Jun 22, 2005 | 11:47 am
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Originally Posted by csb
I would guess that Coke produced in most other countries uses cane or beet sugar rather than HFCS for the simple reason that the massive subsidies for HFCS that were instituted in the eighties at the behest of Archer Daniels Midland do not exist elsewhere.
I thought it was high *US* surgar price that forces soft drink makers to use FHCS. Am I wrong on this?

US consumers pay highest surgar price due import limitation. IIRC, the law goes back to WWII days to insure the proper domestic supplies of surgar...
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