Shocking Sugar

Shocking Sugar (audio)
Deconstructing Dinner, Global Public Media
Sugar is close to becoming a cultural institution here in North America and is found in a countless number of foods that we consume daily. The media looks to sugar on a rather frequent basis to satisfy the "declining population health" segments of the nightly news. While these segments could arguably not be frequent enough, there is a whole side to sugar rarely touched on.

Like with many crops, fruits and vegetables, sugar production comes with hidden costs. Sugarcane represents the primary crop from which refined sugar originates, and its current methods of cultivation and production are taking a toll on the environment and on the human beings who are part of the process.

Join us as we look past the health concerns of our sugar-driven food system, and look to solutions and alternatives to a commodity that seems to present very little choice for the general public.
(16 March 2007)

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Note: Additional audio clips available on the Deconstructing Dinner web site, www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/072006.htm

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See also
Farming in the city
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Cornell University Library.
Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute