Is this where we're headed?

photo by ewen and donabel, reprinted under a Creative Commons License
The front page of today's New York Times features an article on the use of sucrose in Similac Organic baby formula:
Parents may be buying it because they believe organic is healthier, but babies may have a reason of their own for preferring Similac Organic: it is significantly sweeter than other formulas. It is the only major brand of organic formula that is sweetened with cane sugar, or sucrose, which is much sweeter than sugars used in other formulas.
So there are several interesting issues raised here:
1. Many people continue to equate the term "organic" with "healthy" even though "organic" simply means that a food contains ingredients grown without the use of certain pesticides or herbicides. (Let's not forget that you can buy organic junk food.) Organics may be better for the earth, but that doesn't mean that every organic product is necessarily the most nutritious choice. If I had the ability to draw a Venn diagram here to underscore my point, I would.
2. Sugar is sugar is sugar, right? Well, not necessarily. As the debate over high fructose corn syrup continues to rage, experts differ in their beliefs over how various sugars (HFCS, sucrose, lactose, fructose) affect the body. I choose to avoid HFCS. If I were bottle-feeding an infant, I'd now have to decide whether to avoid a sucrose-sweetened formula as well.
3. Is there an element of corporate greed here? Organic sucrose costs Similac's makers less than the organic lactose used by its competitors. (Lactose is also thought to better approximate breast milk.) Economists (you know who you are), please weigh in on the subject of corporate responsibility versus improving the bottom line.
4. The article also points out that a taste for sweet is established very young. When taken to its logical extreme, drinking a super-sweetened formula may encourage children both to overeat in infancy and to continue preferring sweeter foods once they're weaned.
5. The EU has decided to ban sucrose-sweetened formulas by the end of next year. The EU, in fact, bans many things that the FDA has traditionally considered safe (like genetically modified foods).
Where do you stand?