What Links 20,000 Missing Dead Bodies,

and white sugar?

photographs and story from The Daily Mail, let us start with sugar, this was produced from sugar beet, the crop was shredded and crushed, the brown liquid was then made into brown sugar, but it was found that passing the liquid through crushed bones, turned it into white sugar, but here was the problem for the sugar beet factory above set up just 3 miles form the Battle of Waterloo, where can they obtain bones to do this? you guessed it, dig up the dead from the battle and use them!, plus of course all the thousands of horses that died there as well,

but at last 2 skeletons have been found at the site of the battle, the last one above found last July, one of two the grave robbers missed, what a despicable way to treat 20,000 war dead, new research, which has been shared exclusively with MailOnline in the UK, was carried out by respected historians Dr Bernard Wilkin and Robin Schäfer, along with archaeologist Professor Tony Pollard, from the University of Glasgow. there have been various hints that this grave robbing on an industrial scale may well have happened, a 1835 article from French newspaper L'Independent that was found by Dr Wilkin's team recorded how industrialists had been given permission to 'excavate the battlefield of Waterloo, in order to remove the bones of the dead, which are piled up there in such large numbers, and to make bone char.' the team discovered dozens of contemporary written accounts in Belgian, German and French archives that suggested the bones were plundered from 1834 onwards and used for the burgeoning sugar industry in Belgium, for the full exclusive and amazing story, have a look here, and remember if you are sipping tea from a bone china cup, it really is made with bones, today a good piece of bone china will contain about 30% cow bone, I wonder if vegans know that? but think on this, if you have a vintage bone china cup and saucer there is an outside chance it may well be human bones you are sipping from!