A Dark History of Sugar

A revealing history of our passion for sugar—and the medical, moral, environmental, and economic price we pay for it.

A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe's colonial past and the British Empire were founded and fueled on sugar, as was the United States, the greatest superpower on the planet—and they all relied upon slave labor to produce it. As this book shows, the exploitation of ...