Essay On How Sugar Changed The World

There are many different beliefs about which group of people is responsible for making sure that the production of goods are ethically produced. As a result of the drastically different notions, this topic is very controversial. Many people feel as though factory owners and slave owners are the ones responsible, while others believe that consumers are the ones to blame for the atrocious treatment factory workers are forced to endure. Furthermore, three sources, “How Your Addiction To Fast Fashion Kills,” “How Sugar Changed the World,” and “Bangladesh factory collapse: Who really pays for our cheap clothes?” all demonstrate the constant struggle workers--whether slaves or factory workers-- have to go through in order to live an average life. However, each source portrays this …show more content…
However, many people believe that consumers must bear the most responsibility for ensuring the morality of the production of goods because of “consumer apathy”. Factory owners and slave owners are the ones to blame for the lack of morality in the production of goods because they deceive consumers and other people using forms of propaganda. Sugar workers had to do strenuous work while working on the several sugar plantations. Workers had to implement several systematic processes into the refinement of production of sugar. In the book, How Sugar Changed the World, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos used images and several drawings to depict the steps of sugar refinement and production. On page 48, there is an image of two sugar workers wearing clothes in very poor condition. In the image, the workers are on the island of St. Kitts smiling. Even though sugar workers were forced to work under harsh conditions, there are still images of them smiling and seemingly enjoying what they are doing. This demonstrates the propaganda slave owners used in order to prevent people from