Barbados – A Plantation

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Barbados had its history as a Caribbean tropical farm. Slaves were used for the production of sugar, bananas and other crops. A lot of people made a lot of money.

Walking around a plantation with its mansion was salutary. There were lots of thoughts.

Was it any different to the Stately Homes back in England.

Here they exploited slaves. In England they exploited the poor. In practice there was little difference. The same callous people lived like lords. The same poor people gave their labour for very little.

You are more likely to come to a sticky end rather than a bloody one!

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Around the world in 2012 620,000 people died from violence.

120,000 died from war.

500,000 died from crime.

 

But in the same year 1,500,000 died from diabetes.

 

Human beings have a liking for sugar. It is because we still have the palate of hunter gatherers. Natural occurring sugar was to be found in fresh ripe fruit and honey. We rarely had enough of it to satisfy. Now we have it refined and added to most of our food, we gorge on sweets and chocolate bars, ice-cream and sweet puddings. Even our savoury food has added sugar. The huge intake of sugar is creating an epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

 

Death is such a sweet thing.