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Conflict-free? I never understood that. Is Sugar considered conflict-free?

• azernik 9y ago
  The comparison being to conflict diamonds (and conflict-free diamonds) - a lot of wars are fueled and escalated by revenues from natural resource extraction, and a pretty simple kind of ethical consumption is to decide to not buy diamonds from, say, the DRC. The market will adapt somewhat, especially if the good is a commodity whose origin can be obscured in the supply chain, but substituting a whole different good avoids that problem. Buy gems other than diamonds, for example.
  • astura 9y ago
    >if the good is a commodity whose origin can be obscured in the supply chain Like what happens with diamonds: https://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/the_myth_of_conflict_free_diamonds/ https://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/the_myth_of_conflict_free_d...
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• Pica_soO 9y ago
  Sugar is not conflict free- most comes from sugar cane, which is at fault for major deforrestation. In addition renewable carbohydrates are all part of a artesic market, meaning if you push them with subsidies on one market (bio-fuels), the subsidy propagates via demand to all connected markets. Meaning Sugar prizes rising is a indicator for future conflict due to missing food.