Ozempic Boom Poses Big Question About Sugar Demand: Supply Lines

From the threat Ozempic poses to sugar demand to extreme weather endangering crops, here’s a roundup of the latest key food stories from around the world:

Menace to Sugar?

Sugar traders could be overlooking the next big demand hit. As Bloomberg’s Ilena Peng and Dayanne Sousa reported this week, those at a recent annual industry event in New York didn’t appear to pay much attention to the issue of consumption — even when an executive at consumer researcher Circana warned that weight-loss drugs risk having a big impact in the future.

Walmart has already said that drugs such as Ozempic are ...