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Kellogg’s, Christmas Cookies, and America’s Idiotic Sugar Policy
Dec 18, 2021
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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