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This is a program about sugar and the future, not just any sugar, a radical world-changing

kind of sugar produced by a maverick. It hurts because I have to go against everybody. I have to explain a lot.

Nobody understand me. I'm feeling very alone.

We really get to hear the voices of the people producing the world's big commodity foods.

But Lantino Balboe is one of them. His plantation in southern Brazil produces six million tons of sugar every year, but it's the way

he's producing that sugar that's the real story here and is the story we'll be

telling in a moment.

Lantino's story matters because whatever we think of the trend,

the world is getting sweeter.

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