Le protectionnisme agricole nuit à l'emploi. Illustration avec le lobby sucrier américain:

AMERICANS PAY ABOUT double the world market price for sugar,
a hidden tax that hurts everyone with a sweet tooth. (...)

The latest victim of high-priced sweeteners is Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, which announced last week that it would cut 3,500 jobs because of a $1.1-billion loss in 2006. Other soft-drink makers, confectioners and food companies also pay a steep price for the complex system of price supports and import quotas aimed at protecting U.S. sugar growers by insulating them from global market realities.

More U.S. food makers probably would use sugar rather than corn syrup if they could pay the real market price for sugar and have access to more of the sweetener.