California Travel Tips
Crockett California Pure Cane Sugar Town and Proud of It!
Published on: July 31, 2012
Photo: The California and Hawaiian (C&H) Sugar Refinery came to Crockett in 1906 and occupies an old flour mill built by Abraham Starr in the 1880s.
CROCKETT, CALIF.–One town where sugar has always been a welcomed product is Crockett, Calif., home to C&H Sugar processing plant. This “Sugar Town” as it is called, provides much needed jobs and produces a product that Americans seek–pure cane sugar. What would the world be without sugar? It is used to sweeten products, balance flavors, add texture, help in the baking process and has enhanced cuisine globally for more than 2,000 years.
Half baked — GMO Sugar:
- Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets introduced in 2008 are used in over 50% of sugar sold in the U.S. Unless that bag of sugar you just bought is labeled “Certified Organic” or “100 percent cane sugar,” it almost certainly contains sugar made from GMO crops. Roundup Ready sugar beets are genetically engineered to withstand the direct application of the herbicide glyphosate. Do humans digest this stuff? It goes into our bodies and has wreaked havoc on the digestive systems of Americans of all ages. In November 2012 Californians will vote on whether our foods should be labeled to alert us that they contain GMO grown crops.
- As cities around California scramble for tax dollars, they come up with some half-baked ideas. One is to tax citizens for sugary drink consumption. The sugary drink tax that singles out beverages (but not chocolate, candy, and nearly every processed food on the market) is being proposed for Richmond and El Monte, to appear on their November ballots.
- Sugary drinks such as Coca Cola actually use high-fructose corn syrup which is preferred over cane sugar among the majority of American food and beverage manufacturers for increased profits. The majority of corn syrup comes from GMO grown corn. Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi have used high-fructose corn syrup in the United States since 1984, while you the rest of the world enjoys cane sugar in their soft drinks and generally reject or ban Monsanto’s and American manufacturing GMO crops. At Costco we recently saw cane sugar Coke sold in glass bottle 6-packs from Mexico, but it was nearly double the price of our corn-sweetened, aluminum canned Coke.
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