Could'nt open the videos but interesting headline, one that always did and i guess always would sadden the life outta me.To comment a little on this article, yes in the West Indies in the olden days cultivating sugar cane was done entirely by hand all manual. So to get this done slave labour was the ONLY way they could get it harvested and shipped to the very profitable markets in Europe and the rest of the world. With the abolition of slavery i think back in 1833 (if memory serves me right) the practise continued but with the newly freed slaves called "indentured labourers". An indentured labourer was really another form of slavery except they were paid a very small fee, be it in the form of land or money, in exchange for their labour. The day usually began from somewhere around 4 o'clock in the morning and would end most probably around sunset.
This practise continued with these "free indentured labourers" up until recently when the mechanical harvester was introduced to help out since a lot of the people were getting themselves educated/skilled and moving to other less physical demanding jobs.
This was a sight to see, i mean the entire process from the planting of the sugar cane and to the actual harvesting. It is truly one of the toughest jobs on the planet and i'm not asking anyone i'm telling it as i see and know it..... Why, because i grew up in it and to this day even thinking about it really saddens me to see my parents working like slaves to put food on the table for us, while taking care of 9 kids as well. 
My hats are of to them i'm really proud and happy to call them my parents,they are the absolute best in the world.Can anyone find a reason to like Tate & Lyle who was and still is one of the biggest culprit in more recent years to this grossly &distasteful trade,enslaving people to create the most addictive&wasteful substance in the entire planet, sorry i can't

Shvia mentioned   "I became acutely aware of the negative (weakening), effects of sugar on my body whenever I allowed myself a very rare sugar sweetened desert or drink."  EXCELLENT POINT!  I'd like to go a bit further with that - I too, have found the very same fact to be true.  I start to feel very ill if I have more than just a little organic turbinado organic cane juice or sugar here and there. 

However, when your body builds a tolerance for sugar when it's everpresent, the problems don't necessarily show up as an unsettled stomach like it does for you and me.  Bodies become numb to the nausea and more severe conditions present themselves - in the forms of ADHD, ADD, Hyperactivity, Headaches, Depression, Irritability, Candida Albicans, Bi-Polar, Clinical Depression, Misbehavior, VA Tech type behavior...IT'S SCARY EVERYONE !

The Sooner You Remove Refined Sugar from your Life - the happier, the healthier and the more "comfortable in your own skin" you become.

If these are possibly words that don't resonate with you yet, I am asking you very kindly to read them again.  Our bodies are the most amazing creations but truly "what we ingest into our bodies becomes the very core of each and every cell."

This video was most eye-opening.  The entire history of sugar is indecent, immoral and life-taking, humanly and environmentally.  I'm sick of our government allowing special interest to maime, kill and destroy lives and property.  The future of our species and the future of our home planet depends of citizens taking and accepting responsiblity for the future of what Big Pharma, Big Sugar, Big Factory Farms, Big Oil, Big Food are to destroying.

Fl Crystals - as in crystal meth?  No?  Certainly as deadly though!

Good Read - William Duffy Sugar Blues .