Big Sugar- Sweet Slavery

Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the sugar industry. It reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. Even today, sugar cane cutters live like slaves, in appalling conditions on plantations.
Sugar was the oil industry of the 18th century, when vast fortunes were made. Even the Church of England was a slave holder. The British oppositon to slavery becam the first modern political activist movment and Big Sugar responded with the first modern public relations campagin. Today, agressive marketing and lax nutritional standards have given rise to a global epidemic of obesity and diabeties, particularly in children and the poor. Do you think any U.S. network would dare to risk the wrath of sugar advertizers by showing this CBC News (Canada) program?
Part 1 download here.


Part 2 download here.