A Dark History of Sugar

Sugar's meteoric rise, built on slave labor and environmental and health costs, reveals a dark, historical web of exploitation shaping economies, cultures, and consumer cravings.

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 Britain’s Empire were founded and fueled on sugar, as was the United States, the greatest superpower on the planet – and they all relied upon slave lab...