Today, Ron Noon of John Morris University, provoked us to think about globesity -- the disease of affluence: where production is for want and not need; for wealth and not health. One surprising consequence of this new phenomenon has more people dying from over-eating than there are people dying from hunger. Is this true? I mentally name diseases related to globesity -- diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart attacks, are just a few.
He encourages us to check out "The Price of Sugar" (2007), narrated by Paul Newman. The film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced. Thinking about what we've learned in this course, about the role that Liverpool played in the last four centuries of global commerce and trade, unfortunately, there are those who still exploit. And so many more of us who remain blissfully unaware.
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