Cindi - HappyMamatoThree wrote:

Just my little bitch about jobs being outsourced away from hard-working
Americans and endorsement of an American Company.

Don't blame Hershey for this. In the U.S., we
pay about 2 to 4 times the world price for sugar.
We've got two lobbies keeping the present system
in place -- beet sugar manufacturers (who would
not be able to compete with foreign cane sugar
in an unregulated market) and HFCS manufacturers
(led by Archer Daniels Midland) who spend lavishly
on politicians to keep their lucrative trade in
place. (HFCS is exempt from the price supports
for sucrose, so soft-drink manufacturers can use
it as a cheaper substitute, however it is not
suitable as a replacement for sugar in candy.)

We'd be healthier and pay less for food if the
sugar legislation were repealed. We also would
not be losing our candy industry to Canada and
Mexico.

Here's a good article on the subject, though
somewhat dated (2001):

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-013.pdf