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Originally Posted by Hugh
Over 50% of the sugar in the U.K. comes from U.K. produced beet sugar, so any ‘freeing up" of the market would decimate that industry.
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Sugar beet is just a sweeter relative of beetroot. It’s not the only thing that can be grown on that land. If domestically grown product can’t compete with imports then its producers should grow something else that is profitable.
Seriously ... did you think the corn laws were a good idea? Keeping staple food prices artificially high to protect domestic producers is as absurd now as it ever was.