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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5394 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Sunday Times
'A stark, challenging and compelling book'

Synopsis
An expose of the state of the food production industry in Britain. The author looks at some of the most popular foods we eat to show how the food industry causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight, starving small-holders in Africa and Asia, and illegal labourers exploited in Britain.

Customer Reviews

Changed my life
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.

You owe it to yourself
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.

Recommended
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 1800's, 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.