Check out this podcast: Big Sugar #bigSugar
https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/big-sugar/4512252 via @podcastaddict

"Barbados fights Big Sugar for the survival of its people -The legacy of colonialism, modern-day conveniences and a diet high in fat and sugar have bequeathed the island a diabetes and high-blood pressure pandemic. But can health plans win out over corporate interests?

"Barbados, like other small island developing states, is fighting for its people’s survival. On this beautiful island, people wander daily into danger, swinging two-litre flasks of sugary drinks such as Coca-Cola as they step out of their cars, buying local fast food from the back of a van for lunch and queueing at Kentucky Fried Chicken or the local chain Chefette in the evening. The blessings of the modern convenience world have been visited upon small islands, with the result that more than half their people are dying prematurely from heart and lung conditions, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases.
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Blame is being laid at the door of the food industry. The world’s 57 small island developing states, or SIDS, as the UN collectively calls them, have particular vulnerabilities. They cannot grow enough fresh food for their populations and, as the climate crisis worsens, water is scarcer and storms wipe out entire fields of crops every year. So they are reliant on importing their food: for some islands as much as 90% of it. And much of what they import is ultra-processed food, high in calories with very little nutritional value."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/08/barbados-fights-big-sugar-for-survival-of-its-people-diabetes

#Barbados #Islands #IslandStates #BigFood #BigSugar #Capitalism #ProcessedFoods #Colonialism #Obesity #Diabetes #HeartDisease #HighBloodPressure #WHO #UN #UltraProcessedFood

@burningbird @juddlegum What’s wrong with #florida? #criminals running the state government for decades, #republicans, #russianmobsters, #drugcartels, money laundering mecca, #oligarchy #koch family, #BigSugar #BigPhosphate & finally #rondesantis.

@Sheril Thanks for sharing this, just like #BigOil and #BigTobacco these people at #BigSugar have a LOT to answer for.

"All the stuff your read, all the hype - is real".

How Bentonville is blowing up for bikes

The Ride with Ben Delaney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9VG25A6SCM

#Cycling #MountainBike #Gravel #BigSugar

Hey, what if we also did a hashtag introduction by musical taste? I like:

#DorFantasma
#Bloodywood
#Baroness
#BurningWitches
#Kal-El
#Metallica
#Parliament
#BettyDavis
#JanelleMonae
#Anthrax
#Vodun
#OrangeGoblin
#ChurchOfTheCosmicSkull
#CultOfThePsychicFetus
#BigSugar
#LichKing
#WOLFCLUB
#KOBOLD
#PumpkinWitch
#TheSplashdowns

#AJ+
How #BigSugar Stripped #Hawaiians Of Their Own Land And Water

Hawai’i’s sugar industry drained streams to irrigate its crops for over a century, often displacing Native Hawaiian farmers who relied on the water. The last...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUuQ1oBRFU