CHEMICALS - WE ARE ALL MADE OF CHEMICALS!
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Along with may other such publications, this embraces the view that, setting aside the very valid exploitation issues, anything relating to "CHEMICALS" are nasty and damaging!
We are all made up of a variety of chemicals - the very elements that are needed to build both us as humans and all that surrounds and feeds us.
Furthermore, the over-sanitisation of our world has lead to so many allergic reactions as we have not built up the antibodies that our forefathers did naturally. And our intervention into "lesser-known civilisations" has brought them new biological hazards for which they have no natural defence.
Basically the book just serves as yet another tirade against multiple food retailers - some of whom DO really care about production methods
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Changed my life
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My whole outlook on the food I eat, what I buy and where I buy has changed after reading this book. I started reading on the Friday and was finished by the Sunday. I no longer go to supermarkets, I seek out good local shops that sell quality foods. I buy organic wherever possible. I avoid process foods and I always read the label. It is truly shocking what manufacturers and supermarkets get away with.
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You owe it to yourself
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You owe it to yourself to scare yourself silly with this book.
Cheap food is good, right? Uh-oh. Everything 'cheap' is being paid for somewhere along the line - either in quality, or in pitiful wages for the workers, or in environmental damage.
You will never buy a washed salad pack again.
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Recommended
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Good book with lots of chunks I wanted to copy and forward on to folks. Chapters focus on ingredients and their production/marketing/adulteration. Everything on the shelves in the supermarket is adulterated, far worse than the horror scares in the 1800s, and yet the deceit surrounding the practice is much better managed these days. :(
Not... is *way* better (and more sympathetically) written than The Great Food Gamble which I also recently read on a bookring. This is as good as Fast Food Nation, and as relevant.
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READ THIS BOOK if you care about your family and yourself
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If you are conscious about your eating habits, and you probably are if you are looking at this book, then this will be an interesting read. Some things might not be totally new, but it certainly clarifies some things.
The examples given are focused on the U.K. food market, but it certainly translates to Europe in general.
There are some things you can easily change in your eating habits and the book is not too idealistic. In fact it helps to set realistic goals and even if you don't want to change anything ... at least be aware unless you want to stay ignorant.
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