📊 Domestic Beer, Soda Excess, and Feeding the World

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Today's charts:

1. Mexico’s Coca-Cola problem 🥤

2. How much beer is consumed domestically and how much is exported? 🍺

3. This is why Latin America is considered the world’s feeder 🧑‍🌾

Make sure you check out the comment of the week at the bottom!

Soda Industry 🥤

Every year, 50% of all Mexican deaths occur due to one of 3 leading causes of death, all highly correlated with soda consumption: high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and obesity. To illustrate the importance, these deaths — 400K in total — represent 12x the number of annual homicides.

Mexico Has an Enormous Soft-Drink Addiction Problem