* By example, there is nothing meaningfully easier about using corn syrup than using cane sugar for soft drinks. That's why the rest of the world uses cane sugar (and because they don't have subsidies jacking up the price).
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Is high-fructose corn syrup the culprit?
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I don't know about that. When I lived in England, my house (rented) was in the middle of a large sugar beet producing area. The farmers said that nearly all of their beets went for sugar. Only the local people and restaurants actually ate their beets as beets.
One local cook at a restaurant I sometimes ate at admitted that he got many of the beets served at his fine establishment off of the side of the road, after falling from a farmers truck. Of course, he served vegetables in the time-hounoured British way, boiled to within an inch of dissolving, so germies were not an issue.