A shocking and highly readable expose of the state of the food production industry in Britain today. Felicity Lawrence will take some of the most popular foods we eat at home to show how the food industry in Britain causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight, starving smallholders in Africa and Asia, and illegal labourers smuggled and exploited in Britain.
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'A stark, challenging and compelling book’ -- Sunday Times
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
After reading this book I am now planning to go organic (away from the Big 4 supermarkets if at all possible), buy a breadmaker (to avoid the rubbish that is put in the bread - have you wondered how bread is made long life?), buy a coffee maker to use fairtrade beans and generally change the way I think about food for myself and my family. If you read this book wihout a change in your diet you must be very dumb or know this stuff already. A very important book.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Rio Calling
Format:Paperback
Basically, don't read this book if you wish to remain ignorant about what you eat. Otherwise, it really will change your views and approach towards food. As a result of reading about what supermarkets are doing to our food, and the environment and economy, I'm now looking into getting local, organic food delivered, as I don't want to eat any more rubbish out of supermarkets anymore.
76 of 79 people found the following review helpful
By "jbosworth"
Format:Paperback
Most amazing fact about this carefully researched and important book: it’s a delight to read. Instead of the usual trudge through worthy facts and figures, the author has given us a firsthand account of the people and firms which have changed the way we eat. Lawrence gives plenty of space to academic research on the effect of “big food” on our nutrition and the well-being of small-scale food producers. But the most memorable passages detail the time she has spent with migrant workers picking and processing in the UK and developing countries. The author is not a head-in-the-sand anti-globalist naive enough to think we can resist entirely the capitalist onslaught. But she shows how our lazy shopping and eating habits have debased our most precious commodity and impoverished small farmers while enriching supermarket chains and food processing giants. Read it!
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The Labour Government, and Opposition for that matter, should be locked in a windowless room until they have all read this book. Once read, you will walk through the likes of Tescos and Sainsburys, Asda and Sommerfield with a heavy heart. Macdonalds is not quite the be all and end all of ogres portrayed by Fast Food Nation because in the end we all have a choice not to eat there. Increasingly, however, we do not have the choice as to where we buy our food. I for one am digging up the lawn and growing my own.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
By "jane-spain"
Format:Paperback
This is the book the confirms all the sneaky suspicions you have always had when shopping in big supermarkets. Why is nothing ever out of season anymore? Why is everything packed in plastic? Why do we pay the same price for chicken today that our Grandparents did? If everything is so clean and perfect now-a-days why do we still have outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and bird-flu and E-coli, not to mention CJD?
When I read this book I realised that deep down I was aware of the facts I'd just never linked them together. It has helped me to feel better about making the time to go to the butcher's, bakers, fishmonger's etc. It is worth taking the time to visit these local shops (if you have any left). The author explores the links between the movement of immigrant workers, packing factories, the congestion on our roads, the distances travelled by our food before it reaches the supermarket shelves. Her research is thorough and well followed through.
I live in Spain and it just happens that after having read the chapter on salad and the greenhouse of Europe (southern Spain, Almeria(Andalucia)) we went to Roquetas de Mar for a weekend break. This had been booked long before I read the book! When we were there we couldn't stop thinking about everything the author had commented on during her stay in Roquetas, about the soil being used for 3 harvests a year, the pesticides needed to support this, water brought down from the north. In the meantime we, the tourist, were stuffing our faces at buffets and wasting water in an area that is a man-made oasis in the dessert. How long can this go on? I looked out of my hotel room window and saw the sea, the beach and a beautiful swimming pool.
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By Sarah
Format:Paperback
The other reviews here have described what this book covers - and I'm not going to repeat them (I agree though!)
On the basis of reading this book I have changed my "consumer habits" - I've voting with my wallet: shopping & eating locally, and keeping the money in the local community rather than in a corporate entity. The food I cook tastes better, turns out cheaper, and I definitely feel better for it.
This is probably the only book that I have read in the last 5 years that has changed my outlook so categorically. I'm tring and failing not to evangelise...
I would recommend this book to anyone who cares about what they eat, and the impact of it on their environment.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Before I read this book I assumed that chicken was chicken and fruit was fruit. I now know that what appears to be fresh has been through weeks of freezing and manipulation. After reading this book you will, like most other readers, adjust your shopping habits not just for your health but in support of higher quality, better tasting foods most likely gotten from your local butcher or organic/farmers market. I just can't believe how apathetic we've become and how we let the major supermarkets dictate what we put in out bodies. I also can't believe how they have exploited the producers in the name of profits. I now don't mind paying extra for organic/free range/free trade food with labels that fully disclose the contents.
It's an education.
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Eye opening
This was an eye opening read. I was shocked at the high price of food (when compared to the uk) when travelling to Malaysia recently and by the fact that the supermarkets sell more... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ms. Damodaram
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Out of Date but maybe still relevant!
Clearly could do with updating - if only to tell us if anything has really changed since the findings were made public. Worth a read.
Published 2 months ago by GSC
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Very out of date
OK but really too out of date to know what was true or not,and also a little too full of facts that are not needed
Published 2 months ago by S. Taylor
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Angering and disturbing
As someone who has always found feeding, eating, preparing and sharing food one of life's pleasures, and as a vegetarian, with a keen interest in health and wellbeing, who has read... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lady Fancifull
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OK to start with.
I found this was an interesting read for the first third of the book, then it seemed to go off the theme a bit and wandered. A bit disappointing.
Published 3 months ago by D. Myers
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Disturbing truths
The author goes behind the scenes to find out what really goes on in the places that bring us our food. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Viva_Viv
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Past its sell by date
I almost wish I'd read this 8 years ago because then the information would have been new to me. Obviously, it's not the book's fault that 8 years have passed and there is now a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Quoth The raven
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Read this if you have a strong stomach
This is a strong incentive to buy organic food if you can afford it. Otherwise try and avoid over- processed food as much as possible. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jim Seaside
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Superb!
This is an absolutely superb book. A real eye opener on what happens when we let 'market forces' do absolutely what they please. Read more
Published 11 months ago by NPF
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Like it but quite scary. For me not enough about the effects of food adulteration but I liked it enough to pass on to friends
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