The majority of the gum arabic used in soft drinks comes from Sudan, as the Sudanese ambassador to Washington reminded everyone yesterday at a very weird press conference. "I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this," he said, gesturing to a bottle of Coke. As for that pesky, on-going genocide? A matter of opinion, he says.
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