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Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate

Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate
By Felicity Lawrence

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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.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #4290 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 288 pages

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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

CHEMICALS - WE ARE ALL MADE OF CHEMICALS!1
Along with may other such publications, this embraces the view that, setting aside the very valid exploitation issues, anything relating to "CHEMICALS" are nasty and damaging!

We are all made up of a variety of chemicals - the very elements that are needed to build both us as humans and all that surrounds and feeds us.

Furthermore, the over-sanitisation of our world has lead to so many allergic reactions as we have not built up the antibodies that our forefathers did naturally. And our intervention into "lesser-known civilisations" has brought them new biological hazards for which they have no natural defence.

Basically the book just serves as yet another tirade against multiple food retailers - some of whom DO really care about production methods

Changed my life5
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 yourself5
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.