Lies Behind The Sugar Industry

Imagine a day without sugar, hard to imagine right? This is because we have become addicted to this sweet ingredient. We have become so addicted that on average a person consumes 60 pounds of sugar in a year, 16.7 grams per day, which is about equivalent to 19 teaspoons or 306 calories (Gunnar, 2008). In recent years we’ve been able to see the lies and deception that sprawl from the sugar industry. The sugar industry, has been taking tactics from the tobacco industry lying about the heath effects directly associated with their product. Although we are the ones who demand sugar, the deception that the sugar industries has lead upon us about the health concerns of their product in recent years proves that they encourage this behavior, in fact

Beginning in the early 1500’s sugar became one of the major ingredients produced in the Salve trade. In their recent work Mark Horton, Alexander Bentely and Philip Langton explain in their writing A History of Sugar- The Food nobody needs, but everyone craves acknowledge that when they say “This need was met by a transatlantic slave trade, which resulted in around 12,570 human beings being shipped from Africa to the Americas between 1501 and 1867” (Horton, Bentley, and Langton 2015). We tend to neglect the hardship that the salves went trough to produce sugar cane or how long the slave trade lasted. I think it’s important to reflect on this past because the past is often a reflection of the future and although slavery is abolished now some of they key ideas are still reflected in today’s society. Kara Walker a famous artist brought attention to this topic when she created her famous statue of a sugar coated sphinx-like woman. In the video produced by Creative Times (2014) Anne Pasternak explains that, “Kara Walker is looking for us to look at things that are so

Pennel starts his argument by saying “Rather, obesity, resulting from a combination of “food industry” and the American appetite, now holds the crown as the most expensive, preventable health care cost.” What the author is saying is that we are the ones who bring these heath risks upon us that so easily could disappear if we were willing to make a change in our diets. Pennel compares the past debates on tobacco and how they foreshadow the debates on sugar today by saying “today anti-obesity campaigns against the food industry are experiencing many of the same roadblocks that anti-tobacco advocates faced in the 1960s, ” I think this statement is a very important one. Although we consume sugar everyday I find it appalling that people would try to fight against this knowledge being released to the public. The number one concern of any business that people are going to be consuming should be the health of their consumers. I can relate to this topic of business because I want to work in the business industry when I graduate but there are some limits that need to be made. In the business world “business is business” but the lives of the people you are selling to should always be a concern in any business deal. Sugar is