

It’s not really a USA thing as such, it’s because cane sugar is more common in the US while e.g. Europe primarily uses beet sugar. Beet sugar is lighter and needs less refining to make it white, so bone char is basically never used for beet sugar. The same applies to Agave too. And to HFCS.
For liquid sugar it depends on what sugar it was made from, it can be made from cane sugar but also from beet sugar.
Organic sugar doesn’t use bone char in the US because USDA doesn’t allow animal derived processing aids for organic products.






I don’t have ai psychosis myself but man did Claude Code make it easy to see how people could develop it. I guess it makes sense too considering humans thought ELIZA was intelligent. My employer does some AI stuff and I think it just took me a while to understand how these LLMs appear to people outside that sphere.