sugar baby

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>White cane sugar is processed with bone char, but white beet sugar

>isn't. Brown sugar is just processed white sugar (if it's cane or beet

>varies by brand) with molasses added back in.

 

Hi Cheryl,

 

thanks for saying hello.

 

I cant speak for the US but in the UK there is a real cartel running the

sugar industry that goes right back to the days of the slave industry. it

was part of the triangle of trade that gave reason to both those and the

tobacco industry and created not just the American State but the wealth

of British towns like London, Bristol and so on. interestingly to me, it

was the dissident Quakers that pursued the sugar beet as economic

strategy against that.

 

some brown sugar is pure brown sugar, try shopping at Oriental or Indian

stores and you willfind it there very cheaply although often in stick

form. perhaps even also from Caribbean shops.

 

we used to get really brown sugar from Barbados her, and I htink that

some good brands of Muscovado is still for real, but since the European

Community has put economic blockage of the UK trading from its former

Commonwealth States, we too also only get regenerated brown stuff. sugar

that has been purified through bone into sugar and molasses then being

mixed back together or added. i guess it is more profts for someone.

 

beets could be much more sustainable as they can be grown locally *BUT*

the question is, do you really want to eat this stuff at all. Cue " Sugar

Blues " the book. it is less than an empty food, it actually creates harm

and deficit in the body. leeching minerals and swinging the system way

out of balance on the old sodium : potassium scale and others. if

launched today would not get FDA approval, rather more be registered as a

drug. this is out of balanceness is particular worse in vegan whose diet

tends to be low in sodium and grounding foods anyway. we dont do the

salty rich meat to balance it.

 

better bets is you have a sweet tooth to exorcise it on malts; maple,

corn, barley and rice syrups for example which contain complex more slow

buring mineral rich carbo-hydrates instead of simple, fast buring empty

one. baked fruits and fruit butter too.

 

sugar is *so* addictive, try taking all of it out of your diet and you

will see. it is just like a drug to spike foods by the so called food

industry, get kids hooked early on and milk them for their lives.

 

john