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I know I will burn karma for this but what the heck: If you don't like it, don't buy it. That their sugar-added products are not sold in Switzerland or Germany is simply because people there would not buy them enough to make profit. There is nothing unethical about adding sugar to a food.

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Around here people don't buy it because some people successfully campaigned to get the stuff banned. That's all there is to it.

They're pretending that it's good for the kids and prey on the uninformed or those who can't afford better alternatives. That's unethical to me.

clearly someone here is probably coming from a wealthy country and never had food insecurity in their vicinity.

I do not mean to give you a "woke" lesson or whatever, but the reality where I come from is that people do not have the instruction level to know that this product is harmful to the health. The child will just ask for it, and if they are lucky/hard working enough to afford it, parents will buy it.

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