Blast, aren't you fairly close to Sugarland, Texas? No wonder you are sticking up for this "toxic" substance...
Yep, I spent 8 years working in a building surrounded by Sugar Land's sugar fields (not the prison!!). Twice a year they would burn those fields which drove all the copperheads living there into my building.
I have very mixed feelings about the assorted hazards of sugar.

-Blast