Sugar Beet Dollars

 So, it’s looking more and more like the plaintiffs in the G.M. sugar beet litigation have a “sugar daddy”. Whether they actually knew it or not remains to be determined, but it has come to light that billionaire financier and hedge fund manager, George Soros’s private Open Society Foundation has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the very non-profit law firm, Earthjustice, that filed the lawsuit to stop U.S.farmers from planting genetically modified sugar beets. The Open Society Foundation states that the grants it awards are made in part for economic, legal, and social reform. And apparently, if that happens to help build the coffers of the Soros empire, so much the better. Soros is a major stock holder in a South American food and farming company that processes over one million tons of sugar cane a year; meaning that if domestic sugar production is crippled Soros will stand to make an immense profit. Perhaps Mr. Soros didn’t have any knowledge of his foundation making such grants that would eventually benefit him, and perhaps he also became one of the richest men in the world through just sheer luck.