good afternoon sir could we interest you
in some chocolate chocolate did you say
chocolate chocolate chocolate hey it's
Kristin and I have made multiple videos
talking about the different things that
I boycott from fast fashion to different
food brands that I don't support why I
buy my technology secondhand and why I
don't eat meat and dairy and today is
another day in another video of me
talking about why I don't buy something
that everybody loves and basically like
that kid at school that goes up to other
kids and tells them that Santa isn't
real actually I was that kid at school
and as you can tell from the title of
this video today I'm gonna be breaking
down why the candy industry is in my
opinion possibly the most insidious
industry out there the first reason is
the most apparent one which is the
negative impact of candy consumption to
our health and I feel like it's really
important to kind of establish that
candy is not a food candy is a product
like bleach and toothpaste and a
mousepad
and just like every product has a
purpose candies purpose is to shove it
in our mouths and satisfy our taste buds
at any cost
and that cost is paid not so much with
money but with our health conventional
candy like Snickers bar is Kit Kat M&Ms
Reese's peanut butter cups the mmm I
just loved so much before I went vegan
but even those are evil and I feel like
we all already kind of know how
unhealthy candy is and I have a lot more
important things to talk about in this
video so I'm just gonna go through a
very quick breakdown of all the negative
health effects of candy consumption and
those are sugar and candy increases
inflammation in the body also it
increases insulin which can
cause diabetes an ingredient in a lot of
candy is refined fructose which can
cause fatty liver disease candy also
causes cavities it lowers your immunity
it causes acne causes weight gain and
even cancer comparing that to cannabis
that only has four permanent negative
physical effects candy is a lot worse
the cost of sugar for the global health
care system is 470 billion dollars and
that is 10% of all health costs compared
to so many illegal drugs that are way
safer than sugar it kind of shocked me
that this substance is legal I mean it's
basically a drug that is supplied by a
very powerful sugar industry that by the
way has been suppressing studies that
link sugar consumption to heart disease
and cancer for decades then we have
reason number two which is plastic
pollution so not only the ingredients of
candy are very bad for our health but
also the packaging is terrible for the
environment only about five to ten
percent of plastic gets recycled and
about 50% of plastic packaging gets
buried in a landfill where it will not
biodegrade and even if that plastic ends
up in the recycling bin
because candy wrappings are so small
they don't always get recycled and then
the rest of the plastic packaging ends
up in our seas in our oceans where it
breaks down into smaller pieces of
plastic and those pieces of plastic get
consumed by a lot of fish and little fun
fact 1/8 for sea life that ends up on
our plates actually contains plastics so
sounds really delicious doesn't it and
then we have the third reason which is
dairy the majority of candy contains
either milk protein powdered milk or
just plain cow's milk a lot of it also
contains egg and I'm gonna talk a little
bit specifically about cow's milk and
how its produced because I feel like a
lot of people are ignorant about this
process and it truly is horrifying
so cows do not naturally produce milk
cows are mammals just like humans are
and in order for a cow to produce milk
she has to first become pregnant for
that to happen
she is artificially brutally and
painfully inseminated by the farmer
after she has her baby it is taken from
her within 36 hours and just like humans
and many other mammals cows get attached
to their baby cows so once that baby is
taken away from her cows are known to be
screaming and bellowing for their babies
for many days and once her baby's taken
away from her the cow starts getting
milked
she's also pumped with hormones and
antibiotics in order to increase her
milk production and because her body is
taking such a huge toll getting milk
constantly and way more than she would
be under natural circumstances has also
developed mastitis in many cases which
is a very painful infection and after
about five years milking cows just
collapse from exhaustion and they are
just straightaway dragged to the
slaughterhouse to get turned into
burgers or baby food
and normally a cow will live up to 25
years dairy is also a very unhealthy
substance just like sugar and again I'm
gonna read from my notes because I am
NOT a doctor so dairy consumption
increases the risk for hip fractures
osteoporosis chronic inflammation poor
skin acne digestive problems cancer type
1 diabetes multiple sclerosis it speeds
up aging it Rises your cholesterol and
it even causes ear infections and
glaucoma I mean I am NOT gonna say
anything
you are probably an adult you can make
your own decisions hopefully you're
gonna decide to put in your body
something that doesn't cause all these
diseases I've heard almond milk and rice
milk is much healthier for you moving on
we are gonna talk about sugar and you're
probably now thinking like Kristen we
already went over this sugar is bad I'm
not gonna eat it again or like screw you
I'm gonna eat as much sugar as I want I
don't care even if all my teeth fall out
that's fine do whatever you want
but it gets so much worse than that when
it comes to sugar so National Geographic
actually exposed how sugar cane
harvesters in Nicaragua actually have a
life expectancy of only 46 years and
many of them are dying due to chronic
kidney disease and that is from a
combination of possibly pesticide use
but mostly it's chronic dehydration due
to poor rough and unsafe working
conditions that they are exposed to and
what's worse is that the sugar industry
is actually blaming the workers were
poor lifestyle choices which has been
proven to not be the case and it gets
worse because child labor is present in
at least 17 regions supplying sugar and
only 3 out of the top ten sugar cane
producing countries do not have child
labor and slave labor prevalent
sugarcane plantations guys insane that
means that the majority of our sugar is
coming from places supplying it through
child labor and slave labor it's not ok
and then for reason number five we have
cocoa cocoa also comes from slave and
child labor just like sugar just an even
bigger and more horrifying scale I'm
sorry I'm sorry nobody wants to think
that their cocoa was harvested by a
child slave but that's unfortunately the
situation and I urge you to watch the
documentary the dark side of chocolate
it's actually available for free on
YouTube for you to watch it's very
enlightening very horrifying
unfortunately probably are gonna cry if
you watch it but it's important that we
are informed about this so that we make
wiser decisions with our money and
instead of buying you know normal
chocolate we can instead support fair
trade chocolate the documentary exposes
the heartbreaking stories of the
children forced to work in cocoa
plantations in West Africa many of these
children are sold to traffickers or farm
owners by their own relatives and others
are abducted from countries like Burkina
Faso and Mali and they are then taken to
work in the cocoa plantations and many
of these kids never even see their
families again the children carry bags
of cocoa pods that weigh more than a
hundred pounds and they're beaten if
they don't work fast enough this is the
reality of the chocolate industry and
this is something that companies like
Nestle have been trying to cover up for
decades and have been turning a blind
eye to stuff like this and you know we
have to ask ourselves how delicious is
this cruelty how delicious is this child
labor after doing research for this
video I am very much convinced to never
buy non fair trade chocolate ever again
to be completely honest
I really don't I'm not a sweet tooth to
me it's very easy to avoid it but I know
that for a lot of people it's not a lot
of people are addicted to sugar I mean
for me if I have sugar just once I'm
gonna crave it for the rest of the week
so I just avoid it like it's the devil
getting off of candy is a very hard
thing for a lot of people but I do urge
you to give it a shot because it's
totally worth it it's worth it for your
health it's worth it for the environment
is I mean you don't really have to even
quit candy just go for Fairtrade
triggers fair trade chocolate it's more
expensive but that's an even bigger
motivation for you to eat less of this
really unhealthy stuff and we're not
done because there is a sixth reason why
I think candy is probably the worst
substance that we have in our house take
a look at this photo and tell me how
many of these brands do you recognize
and how many of these products have no
dairy they contain fair trade sugar fair
trade cocoa the wrapped and sustainable
packaging and they're all so healthy I
can't see any these brands are profiting
out of offering us a product that is
destroying our health that is destroying
the environment that is harming animals
that is the result of child and slave
labour our taxpayer dollars euros pounds
whatever are covering the medical costs
for illnesses that these brands are
creating these brands not only turn a
blind eye to the inhumane labor
practices that are basically required
for them to provide us with such cheap
junk food they're also turning a blind
eye to the animal cruelty the
environmental destruction and then what
do we do we end up worshipping these
brands like their gods we put them in
our music videos we make songs about
them we put
our t-shirts on our bedding it's kind of
disgusting if you think about how much
these brands have brainwashed us into
adoring them for doing absolutely
nothing positive for this world the only
positive thing they offer us is
basically just momentarily satisfying
our tastebuds that's such an
insignificant positive effect compared
to all the other negatives that come
with the production of candy and if you
want to get even more shook and
horrified with how terrible these
companies are I do recommend you watch
my video three popular companies that
hate you and I'll link it somewhere over
here over here probably no over here and
in that video I get into a lot more
detail and talk about some really
shocking scandals that these companies
have been involved in and never really
paid for so this is why I think candy is
the worst thing when you could possibly
buy with your money because it causes
destruction on just so many multiple
levels that I don't think there's
another product that really has the same
negative impact as candy does I mean I
could be wrong let me know in the
comments below if you think there's a
worse product than candy I'd love to
know and make a video about it maybe but
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