The sweetest thing

An article I found on the Internet says that many companies have been boosting the amount of sugar in foods they produce. In the past 30 years products from soup to bread to cereals we'd consider healthy have been made sweeter to appeal to consumers, with the consequences including increases in tooth decay and diabetes.

Products mentioned in the story include Kellogg's Special K cereal, which has double the amount of sugar that it had in 1978. The article also says that some brands of whole wheat bread have a teaspoon of sugar in every three slices.

This is just one tiny part of the big story: The effect of corporations growing, processing, packaging, marketing, shipping and selling our food has been disastrous. It's one way -- possibly the largest way -- in which capitalism and technology are destroying our culture, our species and our planet. Read Wendell Berry for more insight.

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