Letters from a Young Radical

This is something I need to look into. Why is it that all big food corporations - chain restaurants, chain coffee shops, fast food, etc - inject all their products with sugar or grease? I try to avoid these places like the plague in an attempt to eat more healthily and to shop locally. However the other day I had to meet a client at Starbucks, a company I haven't given money to since freshman year of college (when I gave them quite a lot of my money). Maybe it's because I've been living in Seattle but seriously the Chai I got had to be at least HALF made of sugar. I felt like a kid again, sucking down that Quik Strawberry Milk crap.

Now something I've never asked myself somehow : Why?
Is sugary food cheaper to manufacture?
Is it more addictive?
Is it really more appealing?

At the moment I'm sipping on a lovely spicy chai at Caffe Vita in Capitol Hill. No complaints here.