If I were sugar, now would be the time to take cover and either start looking for a new job or find a safe way to retire. Maybe partnering with newer, better versions of sweetness would be worth investigation because, everywhere I would look, the future would be grim. I would see that my days were numbered as North Americans continue to reduce their consumption of soda pop, and governments crack down on how I am labelled. There is nowhere to go but down and out for sugar. Even …