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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

trotsky

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1. Corn and sugar beets can be grown throughout the US.

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Tue Apr 12, 2016, 01:42 PM

Apr 2016

Sugarcane cannot. In addition to the burden on the environment from just growing the stuff, you also have to add on the costs (monetary and environmental) of transportation! Whereas sugar from corn and beets is already in the country.

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Another not so sweet victory for the Anti-GMO movement [View all] HuckleB Apr 2016 OP

Corn and sugar beets can be grown throughout the US. trotsky Apr 2016 #1

There is just a wee bit of irony too. progressoid Apr 2016 #2