Elizabeth Dougherty is a food writer and blogger. She spoke with someone at USDA who told her that sugarcane is routinely sprayed with roundup to make it ripen faster. Check out her site at elizabethdougherty.com.

I use organic sugar for all everyday stuff, and I'm using more and more honey and maple syrup, but occasionally we have used cane sugar (sugar beet sugar we never buy) for a large expensive thing, such as blackberry wine. Now I will have to cut down production and get an… Continue