06/12/2017
Here is an article on our good friends at Atkinson Candy. It all comes down to getting rid of the 80+ year old sugar subsidies. This is also why Oreo moved to Mexico and many candy companies are forced to move their plants out of the country. We need to get rid of the large government subsides to keep confectionery jobs in the US.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/The-sugar-wars-are-still-raging-and-this-candy-11209026.php
LUFKIN - On a busy highway heading into this industrial East Texas town, a candy factory stands next to a chicken processing plant that sometimes wafts the smell of bird guts across the parking lot that divides them, mixing with the delicate scents of peppermint and peanuts. Sugar. Because of U.S. p...