The Consequences Of The Sugar-Beef Complex

The sugar-beef complex doesn’t benefit people greatly, but still it’s a huge business and a vast amount of people feel like they need to participate in these businesses therefore perpetuating and supporting the environmental consequences that come with it. Some consequences of the sugar-beef complex are that the corporate sugar-beef complex is one of the main reasons for bad human health and they are huge factors in negatively affecting the environment. They both also show how our capitalistic society has gotten used for exploiting the earth for only our benefit. The sugar complex has affected the environment and humans in a negative way because like Robbins said sugar was a luxury turned into a necessity (pg. 188). This is a good example on what we do with a lot of things especially in capitalist society where the more things we consider necessities the more we will buy and spend money on these products. This consumerism hurts the environment because more the more sugar we buy the more ecosystems have to be …show more content…
Beef comes from cows and cows need a lot more space, but create way less food, than sugar and any other plants. Cows need to be given so much food and water that could instead be used to feed people directly but isn’t. All these resources that cows need to get big enough to slaughter also need their own space to grow. So now we need a whole other piece of land just to grow food that is going to go to our other food. This causes more trees to be cut down and therefore more carbon dioxide to be left in our atmosphere. It seems very impractical to give our beef food we could be eating instead of eating beef, but just like sugar beef has become a necessity for most American families. Since beef is such a staple food that mostly everyone could get anywhere people are not in a healthy state in America and eating a lot of meat is big factor in hurting the health of