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Kellogg’s, Christmas Cookies, and America’s Idiotic Sugar Policy

by Clark Packard
Dec 18, 2021
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issues: Conservation, Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Finance and Trade, Florida, State Policy
originally published in The Dispatch

…As R Street’s Clark Packard explains, sugar production in the United States has been particularly bad for Florida: “A substantial majority of phosphorus that ends up in the Everglades comes from sugar cane farms. Canals that divert phosphorous away from the Everglades instead end up contributing to massive toxic algae blooms that kill wildlife and force public beaches to close…”

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