Sugar lobby vs. everyone

I don't really have a horse in this race, except for the fact that the sugar lobby is trying to get the government to clobber the producers of Splenda, a sugar substitute.
The Cato Inst. story is here

It's worth noting that the website Truth About Splenda is run by a Washington PR company called Qorvis that has done work for such wonderful groups as the Saudi and Hatian governments (see story here.