Starving for sugar /

Examines biotechnological substitutes for sugar and the human and social price of this scientific progress. The impoverished existence of sugarcane workers is being reduced to a greater state of misery as scientists and large corporations develop and manufacture a cheaper sweetener in the form of hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Tamouz Productions, Inc, Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Icarus Films, Maryknoll World Films
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	©1988
Series:	Maryknoll video magazine.
Subjects:	Sugar trade > Social aspects. Sweetener industry > Social aspects. Sugar. Sweeteners.

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Summary:	Examines biotechnological substitutes for sugar and the human and social price of this scientific progress. The impoverished existence of sugarcane workers is being reduced to a greater state of misery as scientists and large corporations develop and manufacture a cheaper sweetener in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
Item Description:	Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Format:	VHS.
Audience:	Agriculture. Anthropology.
Production Credits:	Camera, Ilan Ziv and Tal Larish ; editor, Martin Lucas ; music, Patricia Lee Stotter.