On the one hand, yes, true. On the other hand, businesses are doing this because of demand, so individual consumerism does matter. Land and water usage in the US is largely to support the raising of beef and dairy cows, and corn is terrible for soil and the environment. The Amazon rainforest is being razed for beef farms. These things wouldn’t happen without demand, so it is collectively on consumers to make some better choices.
Wellllllll, maybe. Whitened sugar is processed with bone char, and given how white the stuf is, there’s a good chance that it’s also processed that way.