{"id":465,"date":"2014-12-01T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsudlr.wordpress.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:03:33","slug":"are-your-sweeteners-really-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/2014\/12\/01\/are-your-sweeteners-really-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Sweeteners Really Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kendra Roberts<\/p>\n<p>The world is constantly in flux with goods and services, which isn\u2019t news to anybody, but what happens when those goods are tainted with the blood of humans? What happens when the sugar in your coffee or in your candy bar is produced by hands that bled, bodies that were whipped, and children who were exploited? That is a reality for many sugarcane workers in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cA batey is a company town where sugar workers live. They are mainly found in Cuba and the Dominican Republic\u201d (Harrison 141). \u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One problem with such a corrupt industry is the coverage it receives. News stations like CNN believe there is no real reason to worry about these sugarcane workers. According to Anderson Cooper\u2019s blog, this is not an issue regarding slavery but an ethical issue that can easily be fixed by implementing safer working environments for these hard-working people (par 2). The problem is that Mr. Cooper later contradicts himself in the same blog post: \u201cWhile outside the limits of the tour, [there] was a batey with [n]o running water, no electricity, too little food. The old or infirm looked like they were starving\u201d (par 5). Mr. Cooper visits a batey (scheduled for the real tour) and then sees a batey down the road, sees the living conditions, sees the people starving and sick and just considers this an ethical issue. Mr. Cooper is missing one key issue with the bateys \u2013 Haitian sugar workers are not allowed to leave the batey once they are trafficked to the sugar fields. Once shoved into a batey, the cane workers stay in the batey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cFair-Trade is a movement whose goal is to help producers in developing countries to get a fair price for their products so as to reduce poverty, provide for the ethical treatment of workers and farmers and promote sustainable practices\u201d<\/i> (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_467\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/dlrpreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/12\/sugar-tea.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"wp-image-467 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/dlrpreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/12\/sugar-tea.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"sugar-tea\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Does your spot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/view-image.php?image=29929&amp;picture=sugar-tea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sugar <\/a>= a spot of slave labor?<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>Modern slavery exists whether others want to believe it or not. But it\u2019s here, in plain sight, as shown in the documentary <i>The Price of Sugar.<\/i> \u00a0In the documentary, we see that the bateys are topped with barbed wire where the overseers of the sugar fields sometimes lock the workers in at night. \u00a0According to Michelle Harrison, \u201cDominican [a]uthorities\u2026 employ over 40,000 Haitians\u201d (141). This means at least 40,000 people are being held captive in bateys and ordered to work on sugar plantations. All those who are taken violently from their homes are forced to live in bateys so there is no place for them to escape. In the book <i>King Sugar<\/i>, Harrison points out that the United States buys 80% of the Dominican Republic\u2019s sugar. This means Americans consume 4\/5 of the Dominican\u2019s total sugar production each year. Do we really understand what this means? Eighty percent of the sugar in the United States right now has been touched by slave labor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Sugarcane workers are \u201chaul[ed] off public buses, arrest[ed] in their homes or at their jobs, and deliver[ed] to the cane fields\u201d (Siasoco par 14).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe if the idea of people dying over the sugar used for candy bars and other foods doesn\u2019t make you upset, I\u2019ll touch on the fact that children are just as susceptible to the cruelties of sugarcane slavery as the adults. \u00a0The children of the bateys are sometimes trafficked to other cities and then harvested for their organs. Michael Martin interviewed Amy Serrano, director of <i>Sugar Babies<\/i>, a documentary that follows children and their own personal stories of surviving in the bateys:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe sugar industry is also linked to the trafficking of the organs of children who\u00a0work on the sugar plantations there. They are taken to Mozambique and stripped of\u00a0some of their organs, which are sold to wealthy families who need them for their\u00a0children. It all comes back to sugar. Wherever it is harvested, we\u00a0find exploitation and abuse at the worse levels\u201d (Martin 165).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m sure when Americans think about sugarcane, they aren\u2019t thinking about the children who don\u2019t have access to education, running water, or basic healthcare. They aren\u2019t thinking about the thousands of people who are exploited every year to create the sugar for their coffee, teas, and baking needs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cThough <\/i><i>most Americans believe slavery was abolished with the <\/i><i>Emancipation Proclamation<\/i><i> more than a century ago, the horrors of human beings held in bondage flourishes today<\/i><i>\u201d <\/i><i>(Siasoco par 16).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether we want to believe it or not, America is perpetuating a cycle of slavery by having a sugar trade agreement with the Dominican Republic. This isn\u2019t a matter of working conditions; it\u2019s a matter of Haitians being trafficked by the Dominican Republic military and then the United States benefiting from the process. By purchasing Fair-Trade sugar, we can start abolishing the need for trafficked workers. We can start abolishing the system of violence and exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Works Cited:<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, Anderson. \u201cIs Sugar Production Modern Day Slavery?\u201d <i>Anderson Cooper 360 Blog.<\/i> CNN, 18 Dec. 2006. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <a href=\"\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/anderson.cooper.360\/blog\/2006\/12\/is-sugar-production-modern-day-slavery.html&gt;.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/anderson.cooper.360\/blog\/2006\/12\/is-sugar-production-modern-day-slavery.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrison, Michelle.\u00a0<i>King Sugar<\/i>. New York City: NYU, 2001. 138-151. Print.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, Michael T. \u201cDocumenting Modern-Day Slavery in The Dominican Republic: An Interview With Amy Serrano.\u201d <i>Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, And \u00a0Media Studies<\/i> 25.74 [2] (2010): 161-171. <i>MLA International Bibliography<\/i>. Web. 28 Oct. 2014.<\/p>\n<p><i>Merriam-Webster<\/i>. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2014. <a href=\"\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/&gt;.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Siasoco, Ricco V. &#8220;Modern Slavery: Human Bondage in Africa, Asia, and the Dominican Republic.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Infoplease<\/i>. Pearson Education, 18 Apr. 2001. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. <a href=\"\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/slavery1.html&gt;.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.infoplease.com\/spot\/slavery1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1045874\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Price of Sugar<\/a>.<\/i> Dir. Bill Haney. 2007. DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kendra Roberts The world is constantly in flux with goods and services, which isn\u2019t news to anybody, but what happens when those goods are tainted with the blood of humans? 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