on the contrary sweetener is more often than not cheaper than sugar, as sugar is a natural crop which must be grown on land and transported and packaged and preserved in certain ways, you also...
Most cane sugar is processed using bone char (the ground up bones of cows) to bleach the sugar granules. Therefore, agave nectar would be the alternative to sugar in a vegan diet. However, beet...
All sugars aren't the same. There's glucose, maltose, dextrose etc. All different molecular weights, sources and sweetness. Honey is sugar (probabley fructose etc from plants, tho some apiarists feed...