Sugar Reading

In the reading about sugar, I thought it as interesting that people used to think that sugar was a drug. It's interesting because when people think of sugar today, they don't usually categorize it as a drug because sugar is in almost everything. But if people were to think about it, would we still like all the foods we enjoy if it didn't have sugar in it? Sugar is in just about everything that people eat today because otherwise the food would be bitter or flavorless. An example that I can come up with is that a lot of people have a "sweet tooth" and have a lot of cravings for sweets, which obviously contain sugar. But people never looked at this as an addiction because so many people eat sweets and use sugar everyday. Also, it's interesting to know that people in the United States take advantage of sugar. People in the United States use sugar everyday and they use big amounts of it for food or drinks or snacks, but they don't really take the time to think about how and where sugar came from and the history of it. If people took the time to look at the history of sugar and how it came to be and where it came from in order for them to be able to use it, maybe they would think differently about using it so often. Back then, when sugar was first being traded, slavery was not a big deal and people considered it to be normal and the natural way things should be. People don't think about how sugar came to us through slavery in the beginning and they take advantage of it. People don't like to buy things that are made my child labor and things like that, so would people use sugar as much as they do if they knew it originated from  slavery?