Skittles Panders To Black Americans While Selling Them Prepackaged DiabetesCorporations selling harmful food products have chimed in to demonstrate their faux morality and obsession with the plight of black America.BY: B.L. HAHN
AUGUST 16, 2023
Apack of Skittles contains 45 grams of sugar, the equivalent of 11 teaspoons. 11 teaspoons. Imagine shoving a spoon into a bag of sugar and eating 11 teaspoons without vomiting. Mars Wrigley, the company that makes Skittles, manages to sell a colorful concoction containing 45 grams of sugar that won’t make you vomit. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that consuming excess amounts will dramatically increase your risk of diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, black Americans are 60 percent more likely than whites to be diagnosed with diabetes. What does this have to do with Skittles? Mars recently released a new version of Skittles with the phrase “black trans lives matter” on the packaging.
Type 2 diabetes is attributable to lifestyle choices and genetics, both of which influence the prevalence of the condition across various demographics. These rational and fact-based explanations make the left squirm and offer no opportunity to demonize their political opponents, so they’re blaming the difference in diabetes rates on “racism.” Mars is a decidedly left-wing company, but oddly enough it isn’t the least bit concerned about its sugar-laden products contributing to alarming rates of diabetes among black Americans.
When your products are primary contributors to the obesity and diabetes epidemics, you can rightfully point out that nobody is forced to consume candy or other unhealthy food. As a defender of free markets, I embrace this thinking. But if you sell nutritionally defunct garbage that causes some of your customers to become sick with life-threatening illnesses, what you cannot do is claim to be uniquely virtuous and deeply concerned about the well-being of your customers, especially when your own (flawed) logic suggests your products are exacerbating so-called health “inequities.”
There is nothing evil about selling candy, as many people enjoy it in moderation, but there is something cynical and evil about playing on the emotions of black Americans by way of racial advertising as you sell them products you know to be severely detrimental to their health.
Mars is supposedly still a candy and food company, but you wouldn’t know that if you visited the Instagram page of Mars Global, which is dedicated entirely to promoting left-wing causes. Mars is also the maker of what used to be called Uncle Ben’s Rice until the company removed Uncle Ben from the box and rebranded it as “Ben’s Rice.” At the time, Mars issued a statement saying, “We’ve listened. We’ve learned. We’re changing.” Considering this was three years ago, I think it’s safe to say that refusing to sell junk food that drives the epidemic of diabetes was not part of Mars’ newfound enlightenment.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/16/skittles-panders-to-black-americans-while-selling-them-prepackaged-diabetes/
