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Sugar: A Bitter Harvest of Human Misery<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Sugar is the fuel that powers the global economy. It is made of equal parts sunlight and blood.<\/p>

In 1791, an abolitionist pamphleteer wrote, “In every pound of sugar used, we may be considered as consuming two ounces of human flesh.\u201d Today, we can estimate that, thanks to two centuries of hard struggle by labor and beneficent reforms enacted by our rulers, the share of flesh has been reduced to one ounce of flesh for every five pounds of sugar.<\/p>

With a projected 189.3 million metric tons of produced sugar by the end of 2025, it can\u2019t be disputed that people love the stuff. Sugar is found across the entire food industry, in breads, savory dishes and in alcohol. In the roughly ninety-three million seven hundred fifty thousand of cups of coffee served hourly.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The vast majority of people in the world toil, suffer, and if they\u2019re lucky, get the opportunity to chase dreams that will never really satisfy them. But along the way there are bright moments where a meal with friends, or a cool beverage satiates them, if just for a time. Sugar is one of the great enhancers of these moments. It\u2019s a friend to the divorced mom, eating ice cream in the dark, and an aide to the exhausted accountant who needs a boost to meet his deadline.<\/span><\/p>

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The purpose of this site is not to condemn sugar, it\u2019s just an amalgamation of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and one essential to organic life at that. But sugar offers us a crystalline lens through which to see the real world around us, the one hidden by the molasses-sweet lies of our wider information environment. <\/span><\/p>

Join us in a journey through the history of sugar to its contemporary impact.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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