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Lots of ways. We can live with much less sugar in our food. One example: sugarcane. According to the (UN) FAO, "The present area of sugarcane (Saccarum officin
by 8bitsrule 4y ago
Lots of ways. We can live with much less sugar in our food. One example: sugarcane. According to the (UN) FAO,
"The present area of sugarcane (Saccarum officinarum) is about 13 million ha with a total commercial world production of about 1254.8 million ton/year cane or 55 million ton/year sucrose. (FAOSTAT, 2001)." [https://www.fao.org/land-water/databases-and-software/crop-information/sugarcane/en/ https://www.fao.org/land-water/databases-and-software/crop-i...]
That climbed to 1.9B tons by 2020. [WP ... 40% in Brazil] And 13Mha = 130,000 km^2 > 50,000 sq.mi. About the size of Iowa. And then, there's almonds.
- bombcar 4y ago6% of corn is used for sweeteners. That could be removed entirely and probably do the USA a world of good. https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexistence-corn-factsheet.pdf https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...