#209 The Corn Syrup Controversy w/ Benjamin Cohen
The Road to Now
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Is There a Alternative to Cane Sugar?
Germany and france are the biggest producers of sugar, because they're producing beet sugar instead of cane sugar. By by 19 hundred, 65 % of all the sugar in the world is beet sugar. In america, we start to grow beet sugar too, because it's a nice alternative to cane, but not necessarily, because everybody was really cared about enslaved people. Partly, they liked it because it was untouched by dark hands. So there waslike a subtle raceism in it. There was an explicit racism. They called it patriotic in America. A kit bake beet sugar from right here in US gets an alternative to cane,. and it's cleaner, is waiter y. That was
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