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'Wittily charts our wasteful, unhealthy eating habits.' Rose Prince, Telegraph
'Thought provoking and engaging.' BBC Good Food Magazine
'A gruesome portrait of national degradation…she composes this…with precision, contempt and a truthfulness that is recklessly unselfserving.' New Statesman
'A comprehensive denunciation of our food culture, from supermarkets and restaurants to TV chefs and cookery books.' Glasgow Herald
'Joanna Blythman's pleasurably splenetic tirade against the food industry.' Prospect Magazine
‘A stern warning, more effective then any government health campaign…an honest representation of a nation in crisis.’ Sunday Business Post
‘A book that anyone who cares about what they and the country eat should read, digest and act upon.' Sunday Times
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'Thought provoking and engaging.'
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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love Joanna Blythman. Her book The Food We Eat changed my life (I guess it arrived at precisely the right time for me), and I loved Shopped too. But Bad Food Britain is her angriest yet, and the indignation makes it fly. The picture she paints, from food-ignorance and incompetence being handed down from generation to generation, the ever-tightening grip of the food multinationals, the opiate lure of supermarkets, the parlous state of school and hospital food, our masochistic attitude to snacking, to the big punchline ie. the failure of government to take anything like a useful stance on this most fundamental of all public health and sociel cohesion issues, is as depressing as hell. And an essential read for anyone who believes that a nation and a culture is what it eats.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Bad Food Britain - good title but unfortunately Joanna takes a full book to say what a decent newspaper article could do, herein is my problem.
The main premise of the book is that pre-packaged frozen food is the main staple of the British diet juxtapositioned against the european household, which seemingly is a bastion of fresh, fabulous creations for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, whereby hundreds of family members laugh, converse, debate and generally live life to the fullest around the dining table never eating the same meal twice in any one decade....and the lonely individuals which make up the British 2.4 family eat in front of the flickering idiot box with chemically prepared mush in front of them like zombies never taking their eyes off the magical screen (ironically watching some *superstar* chef prepare eggs bendict by first inseminating the hen live) etc... etc..
Whilst the reality may not be too far from this scenario, what Joanna has failed to do is to flesh the book out with some solid factual information about what exactly these "artificial" ingredients actually are and why they are actually harmful to us.
This information would have given some credence to her writing and some interesting insight into the food industry. She does touch on the sneaky yet very clever way that the advertisers get people to buy into the whole "fresh and wholesome" idea of their chemically produced fare but she doesn't really give anything more.
I would recommend "Fast Food Nation" or "Fat Land" over this 2D analysis of the British diet. And just for the record, I do buy fresh produce - I do cook even after a long day at work - I am an average Briton...C'est la vie.
The main premise of the book is that pre-packaged frozen food is the main staple of the British diet juxtapositioned against the european household, which seemingly is a bastion of fresh, fabulous creations for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, whereby hundreds of family members laugh, converse, debate and generally live life to the fullest around the dining table never eating the same meal twice in any one decade....and the lonely individuals which make up the British 2.4 family eat in front of the flickering idiot box with chemically prepared mush in front of them like zombies never taking their eyes off the magical screen (ironically watching some *superstar* chef prepare eggs bendict by first inseminating the hen live) etc... etc..
Whilst the reality may not be too far from this scenario, what Joanna has failed to do is to flesh the book out with some solid factual information about what exactly these "artificial" ingredients actually are and why they are actually harmful to us.
This information would have given some credence to her writing and some interesting insight into the food industry. She does touch on the sneaky yet very clever way that the advertisers get people to buy into the whole "fresh and wholesome" idea of their chemically produced fare but she doesn't really give anything more.
I would recommend "Fast Food Nation" or "Fat Land" over this 2D analysis of the British diet. And just for the record, I do buy fresh produce - I do cook even after a long day at work - I am an average Briton...C'est la vie.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're thinking "Oh no, not another book telling me what to eat!" then breathe easy. Joanna Blythman's targets are not parents struggling against a flood of junk food adverts on kids TV. She doesn't try to make you feel guilty for not being part of the "foodie revolution"
This book shatters the myths built by our processed food industry, the supermarkets and the chattering classes. It takes apart the claims that we are now a nation of foodies enjoying exquisite meals and dining at world-class British restaurants. It's full of frightening facts - did you know that four times the amount is spent on feeding an army dog than is spent on the ingredients for a primary child's school meal? It shows how debased our food culture in Britain has become, who's to blame for it and how we can start to sort it out.
Read it. Get angry and do something about it.
This book shatters the myths built by our processed food industry, the supermarkets and the chattering classes. It takes apart the claims that we are now a nation of foodies enjoying exquisite meals and dining at world-class British restaurants. It's full of frightening facts - did you know that four times the amount is spent on feeding an army dog than is spent on the ingredients for a primary child's school meal? It shows how debased our food culture in Britain has become, who's to blame for it and how we can start to sort it out.
Read it. Get angry and do something about it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Ahhhhhhhh
Again another one I picked up, I spent a good month trolling through these books, and they all say the same thing - pay attention to what your supermarkets are doing to your body,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bobby Moon
Read this on a journey and you will arrive much the wiser
Joanna writes a lot of good sense and her book should be mandatory reading for everyone most of all Government Ministers concerned with food and health. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. Neville S. Gay
If you're looking for an account of how British eating habits, look no...
I'm currently studying to be a nutrition and weight management advisor and bought this book to assist me in identifying the 'world' from which my future clients are likely to come. Read more
Published on 26 May 2010 by M. Goodman
Read, ye junk food eaters, and despair
Following on from the glittering tour de force that was 'Shopped', this is a wider attack on the food industry, not only on supermarkets but on the food companies, the government,... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2009 by Miss E. Potten
An excellent polemic
This passionate polemic is readable and entertaining throughout. Blythman has an argument to make and deploys anecdote and statistics to do so, but the real strength of her... Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2008 by C. Bodsworth
Read it and weep
Another book that had a huge impact on my shopping and consumer behaviour. Well written and d well argued, this should be essential reading for anyone who buys or eats food. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2008 by hypercat
Smug, simplistic and unreliable
Having read Shopped, I was prepared to be amused by this book. But the writer's lack of understanding of statistics, her cheap anecdotal evidence and her fantasies about life here... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2008 by Hamlet's ghost
A Rant
Much as I enjoyed Shopped by the same author this book just comes over as a long rant about the state of British food. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by R. P. Sedgwick
bad food britain
Joanna Blythman explains concisely and clearly how UK ideas on food, eating and cooking are way behind those of mainland Europe. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by J. A. Percival
Lurrved this book!
I got it from the library and may buy it - praise indeed.
There was lots of new ideas i hadn't thought of. E.g. Read more
There was lots of new ideas i hadn't thought of. E.g. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2006 by minty
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