Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn

Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by ip26 on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:23PM (#28124865)

FWIW it only contains corn syrup because it's cheaper than cane sugar. If corn wasn't so cheap, you'd just eat an equivalent amount of cane sugar instead.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by beerandt on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:50PM (#28124983)

>cheaper than cane sugar

Which is because the US restricts cheap sugar imports from Mexico, to make US sugar cane farming profitable.

My first thought when I saw the headline was that Mexico corn restrictions were retaliation for US sugar restrictions.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by datavirtue on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:31AM (#28129306)

55% sugar beets, 45% cane.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by katbyte on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:38AM (#28125742)

Which is better? Cane sugar and corn syrup are very different and the harmful effects of “sugar” are greatly increased with HFCS

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:44AM (#28127615)

Are they that different? I thought the major difference was that the disaccharide in cane sugar was split in corn syrup, which happens very quickly in your digestion anyway.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by yissp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:42AM (#28128091)

It has significantly more fructose which can cause digestive issues for some people (search fructose malabsorption, it's apparently fairly common).

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by katbyte on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:23PM (#28177256)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM - the main gist of it is cane sugar is 50/50 sucrose and fructose while HFCS contains much more fructose which is harder for the body to digest/make use of as it requires being broke down or something and its hard on the liver ect. that video goes way into depth about it if your interested.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by KptMarchewa on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:28AM (#28126393)

Wouldn't it be just ordinary beetroot sugar? Why cane?

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by eru on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:41AM (#28126822)

I assume you mean the sugar beet?

Cane sugar is cheaper than beet sugar.

Alas, the sugar beet industry is also just another creature of tariffs and subsidies.

See eg https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-spends-4-billion-a-... for the US. The situation in Europe was similar when I last looked, but that was at least a decade ago.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by occamrazor on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:34AM (#28127527)

AFAIK sugar in Europe is mostly refined beet sugar, while refined ir brown cane sugar costs much more.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by eru on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:32AM (#28128004)

Yes, and as far as I know that's down to tariffs and subsidies in the EU.

See https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-Sugar-Prices-Euro-... to see that sugar is much more expensive inside the EU than on the world market.

And https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-sugar-prices-graphic-i... and https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/food-farming-f...

https://www.ragus.co.uk/tariffs-on-sugars-explained/ also seemed interesting. They say:

> The basic tariff for importing direct consumption sugar into the EU is €419 per tonne. So, every tonne of sugar imported from a non-EU country costs an extra €419. Raw sugar imported into the EU is to be further refined into white sugar attracts a tariff of €339 per tonne.

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