SH- Is that why the US Ag Dept. and the Administration has offered to pay government  subsidies ( your and my taxpayer money) to the Central American farmers to keep them from selling sugar to the US-- in exchange for the sugar state legislators to vote in favor of CAFTA? :???:  And only for the duration of the current farm bill.....Then after that its everyone on their own- even if we loose a sugar beet industry and the farmers that have invested heavily in it.......

That doesn't sound like protections- sounds like bribery....

Some of the big money corporates must stand to make a bundle off someones back.......