If the deal goes through, it will extinguish a powerful 77-year-old company with 1,700 employees and deep roots in South Florida's coal-black organic soil. It will also resurrect and reconfigure a moribund eight-year-old Everglades replumbing effort that is supposed to be the most ambitious ecosystem restoration project in the history of the planet.
While every action has at least two sides to consider, I hope making the U.S. more dependent upon foreign sources for sugar is in our Nation's best interest. When EnvironMENTALS salivate all over themselves, I become alarmed.
