400 Years of Sweetness
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Are You Really Going to Give That Up?
The world did not give up sugar after the Haitian Revolution. The technology that sugar planters learned in Haiti, they simply leave colonial Haiti and come to the US. When they come to Cuba, they just migrate with the technology and unfortunately they're enslaved people. We were born into this system where we have all these really unhealthy foods at our disposal for free cheap. So there's a strong systematic part of it, but systems don't arise out of nowhere. They're made by people."
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