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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57782-2005Apr15.html

U.S. sugar policy stands for all that's bad about our political system. The government restricts imports through a series of quotas, pushing U.S. sugar prices to between two and three times the global market rate. As a result, a handful of sugar producers, notably in Florida, a battleground electoral state, pocket $1 billion a year in excess profits. To protect this cozy arrangement, the sugar barons plow a chunk of their revenue back into the political system. During the 2004 election cycle, two Florida sugar companies gave a total of $925,000 to election coffers.

Also
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/080405/ew5.htm?date=080405&story=ew5.htm

As World Health Organization Tries To Battle Global Obesity, U.S. Sugar Giants Wage Campaign of Deception
http://www.newstarget.com/000948.html

The World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to combat rising global obesity by adopting and promoting nutritional guidelines that would urge people to drastically reduce their consumption of added sugars (like the sugars found in soft drinks, usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup). But the U.S. sugar industry, sometimes called Big Sugar, is aggressively fighting the guidelines, claiming that sugar isn't bad for you!