Re: OT - Not on the label


Ed wrote:
> Sorry, i know this is my 3rd OT post today, but you're a friendly bunch
>
> Anyone read 'Not on the label' by Felicity Lawrence? What IS safe to
> eat if all supermarket food is contaminated?!
>
> Book Description
> Did you know...
>
> That half the chicken on sale in UK supermarkets is contaminated with
> campylobacter, which causes food poisoning?
>
> That much of the chicken we eat has been illicitly injected with pork
> and beef proteins?
>
> That ready-to-eat bagged salad has been washed in a solution of
> chlorine twenty times stronger than that of a swimming pool; that the
> processing destroys the vitamin content; that in one government study
> 13.5% of bagged salads were found to contain E coli bacteria?
>
> That perhaps 30% of the workforce in the food industry is in the UK
> illegally, controlled by a violent mafia-style network of gangmasters
> and paid far less than the minimum wage?
>
> That the average Briton has between 300 and 500 chemicals in their body
> not present 50 years ago, many of which are capable of hormone
> disruption in the womb?
>
> That the incidence of obesity in the UK trebled between 1980 and 1998
> to 21% of women and 17% of men. Almost one third of children are obese
> or overweight?
>
> That 30-40% of cancers could be prevented through better diet?
>
> A devastating expose of the state of the food production industry in
> Britain, Not On The Label will change the way we eat and the way we
> think about what we eat.
>
> Looking at some of our most popular foods, the author sytematically
> exposes their production and marketing, showing how the food industry
> causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight - and starves
> smallholders in Africa and Asia, and exploits illegal labourers in
> Britain.

This is why everybody should shop at Waitrose.

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