American Crystal halts sugar beet harvest

American Crystal Sugar Co. has halted its sugar beet harvest in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota due to the weather.

[Groucho]

Better headline: Bad weather beats beets.

[zed]

SWEET!!!

[Slim Shady]

don't that beet all

[ROUNDUP BEETS]

Are these beets ROUNDUP READY?? If they are each and everyone of them comes with its own little chemical time bomb. Brought to you by the folks at MONSANTO!!!!!

[Mort]

Probably an opportunity to raise prices.

[Cindy Stainker]

Beets me

[Captain Sarcastic]

ROUNDUP BEETS wrote:

Are these beets ROUNDUP READY?? If they are each and everyone of them comes with its own little chemical time bomb. Brought to you by the folks at MONSANTO!!!!!

Sugar is sugar. There is no difference in the sugar produced by the new varieties.

[ROUNDUP BEETS]

Captain Sarcastic wrote:

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Sugar is sugar. There is no difference in the sugar produced by the new varieties.

No difference?? These ROUNDUP READY beets contain amounts of ROUNDUP a chemical with many undesireable effects on humans.

[Plymn]

The beets MAY contaian a small amount (I don't know and am unwilling to take your word for it) but do you know how they are processed to make sugar? the process takes care of any impurities.