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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (1 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141015667
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141015668
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Be informed about the food you eat, 29 Jun 2004
A thought provoking and well researched book. I thought I had some idea about how supermarkets operate and how our food is produced, but I didn't know the half of it. Read this book (then lend it to everyone you know), ponder its contents for a while and I am sure you will change your shopping habits. Too many of us are shopping in supermarkets and giving them the power to dictate their own terms. It is clear that they do not have consumers or food producers interests at heart. This book has encouraged me to question where my food has come from, how it has been produced and whether or not I want to buy it.
I've gone right off chicken (only organic and free range from now on), I've eaten my last ready meal, I think I'm going to try baking my own bread, definately Fair Trade bananas and coffee from now on and I've just taken over an allotment to grow some of my own fruit and veg. Its time to start enjoying good locally produced and carefully reared/grown food again.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! It should be read by everyone with a conscience., 18 Oct 2004
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. Then I went for a walk and could see all the plastic covering the greenhouses shimmering in the sun light and I thought of all the immigrants living in the rubble with no clean drinking water and little food, who wait by the road at sunrise to get selected to go to work or not. That lettuce is then sent by lorry to UK or other EU supermarkets.

The book makes excellent reading, it is very well written, packed with information and facts. It should be studied in schools by our children, those who can make a difference to the future . The facts are presented in a coherent and interesting way making the author's points hit home hard. I am not an exremist in anything and am sometimes wary about reading this sort of thing, but it is not what I would call a doom and gloom book. The facts are there she has just used her considerable talent to link them together for a fascinating read.

This book really has made me think and I would recommend it to anyone.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading, 12 Jul 2004
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A little dated
This book is interesting, but a lot of the information is clearly rather outdated. A pity there doesn't seem to be another more up to date version.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
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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. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book has changed the way I shop.
This book should be standard reading for schools as part of their health education!
I've always avoided these kind of books - ignorance is bliss as they say, but I felt... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2006 by Myra Lind

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book!
Everybody should read this and then get out to the nearest market/local shop, buy some proper fresh ingredients, and then cook up a wholesome meal that won't potentially kill you... Read more
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