Visit your local grocery store today and you can find Pepsi made with sugar, corn syrup, aspartame, and Splenda. And chances are good you won’t find any difference in the products’ cost. That’s because, as a Pepsi spokesperson admitted in 2006, “The cost of the sweetener in the product is extremely minimal to the point of not even mattering.”...
Large food manufacturers aren’t having problems finding sugar, and U.S. producers still have plenty to sell—and they want to make sure the U.S. Department of Agriculture knows it. In a July 10 letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the American Sugar Alliance urged the USDA to proceed with caution before allowing additional imports of sugar this year....
Noel Shapiro is a Russian-European-Cuban-American. He is also the most American person you’ll meet. Ironically, the Shapiro sense of Americanism was forged by ruthless dictators, and today he helps protect America’s security by putting homegrown food on the table.
Visit your local grocery store today and you can find Pepsi made with sugar, corn syrup, aspartame, and Splenda. And chances are good you won’t find any difference in the products’ cost. That’s because, as a Pepsi spokesperson admitted in 2006, “The cost of the sweetener in the product is extremely minimal to the point of not even mattering.”...
Noel Shapiro is a Russian-European-Cuban-American. He is also the most American person you’ll meet. Ironically, the Shapiro sense of Americanism was forged by ruthless dictators, and today he helps protect America’s security by putting homegrown food on the table. 
