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Corn-Belt Votes Trump. Trump pressures Coke for sugar-based Coke in US. (www.npr.org)
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Coca-Cola's move comes a week after the White House issued a statement by President Trump saying he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup in its signature drink.

Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode predicts that an increase in using U.S. cane sugar will lead to a rise in foreign cane sugar imports.

Bode said in a statement to NPR, "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and expand the trade deficit."

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well in 20 years Florida managed to lose about 90% of its oranges supposedly, and the Tomatoes were down 27% from 2023-2024.

Florida and California were 2 huge growers when it came to fruit.. at this point though any practices made to attempt to save their growers would probably be hit with issues coming from Trump/Desantis pushing to arrest all the people working there.

Throw in reduced tourism and I imagine Florida may see some more struggles in the near future

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Don’t forget about rising sea levels and flooding. Florida’s in for a tough future.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Definitely, add in the soaring property taxes and HOA fees and the insurance debacle also. Happy I got out of there in 2018.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Anyone who thought deporting construction workers was going to do anything other than raise construction and therefore home owners insurance costs was a fool.