Not on the Label
by Felicity Lawrence · first published 2004
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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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For more detail, the woman who wrote The Guardian piece has a book that goes into more detail - Not on the Label: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-On-Label-Really-Plate/dp/0141015...
on “Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010)” ↗…(some) Fat. You can also tell the quality of the bread by squeezing it and feeling for the spring-back. Many supermarkets don't actually stock 'real' bread. I was alerted to this by reading the book 'Not on the Label' https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22not+on+the+label%22+bread
on “What Does 200 Calories Look Like?” ↗