Ebook: Eat your heart out: why the food business is bad for the planet and your health
Author: Lawrence Felicity
- Tags: Consumerism, Family & Health, Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects, Food industry and trade--Social aspects, Food--Quality, Nutrition, Food, Food industry and trade, Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects, Food industry and trade -- Social aspects, Food -- Quality
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London;New York
- Language: English
- epub
Why is it...
That almost all the processed foods we eat contain the same handful of ingredients?That these handful of ingredients are produced by only a handful of multi-nationals?
That some cereals contain more salt per serving than a packet of crisps?That served with milk, sugar and raisins, some cardboard packets have been said to be more nutritious than the cereal they contain?
That there are half the number of dairy farms in the UK than there were 10 years ago?That over the same period the turnover of the top 20 global dairy corporations has increased by 60%?
That over 60% of all processed foods in Britain contain soya?That the UK government's Committee on the Toxicity of Food judged that eating soya could have hormone-disrupting effects?
That in 1970, a hundred grams of an average chicken contained less than 9 grams of fat, but today it contains nearly 23 grams of fat?That the amount of protein in that chicken has fallen by more than 30%?
That children aged...