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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

US corn growers warn Trump’s push for cane sugar in Coke will cost thousands of American jobs

U.S. corn growers have said that Donald Trump’s push to use real sugar cane in Coca-Cola “doesn’t make sense” and will cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs.

In a statement, the Corn Refiners Association added that the move would also lower farm income and boost imports of foreign sugar “all with no nutritional benefit.”

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