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| Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate | 
 enlarge | Author: Felicity Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 25281
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141015667
Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9780141015668
ASIN: 0141015667
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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 This book has changed the way I shop. December 5, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
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 compelled to read this one and I'm very glad I did.
I honestly thought that because we avoided ready meals, we were healthy eaters. How wrong was I!!!
This book has honestly made me think twice about my shopping habits, and where possible I've changed where and how we buy our food.
Such a good book! September 13, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
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 or exploit its producers or the countryside.
Fab! August 1, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
A great book and despite thinking I was quite 'food aware' I learned a lot from this book.
Some people i've described the book to have refused to read it as they really don't want to know - ignorance is bliss I suppose!
If you care about what you put in your mouth this is essential reading.
This book will change how you view the food you eat July 13, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is an eye opening account of modern food manufacturing practices. A quiet revolution has taken place over the last 20 years in how food is manufactured and delivered to our supermarkets and tables. It is travelling greater distances and in many cases is more highly refined and full of additives than it was in the past.
How many of us actually understand the contents we see on food labels when we read them? This ignorance of both the contents of the food we eat and the health impact of a continuous stream of these additives is something manufacturers rely on for us to buy modern, glossy looking, food.
This book details some horrifying manufacturing practices involved in everyday food such as bread, chicken, Lettuce etc. The old saying "you are what you eat" has never been truer you realise as you read this book. This book details modern methods used principally in the UK and Europe, but the same food practices are used the world over now.
It also pinpoints issues such as the vast amount of power supermarkets wield over food suppliers both in price and their insatiable demands for cosmetic perfection in the goods they sell, when then fuels a vicious cycle of underpaid agricultural workers and an unscrupulous reliance on adulteration of manufactured food and a high use of steroids and fertilizers on the farm.
If you care at all about the quality of the food you eat and the impacts of modern food adulteration on your health this investigative journalists book is one you should read. It'll change how you view what you see when you go to the supermarket.
Read this book, if you care about your food July 11, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Wow what a book. I couldn't put it down. It has shocked me to my very core. I read Fast food nation and thought it was great, but to me this had more impact. There is a slight anti-supermarket bias, if I am to play the devil's advocate, but there is no hiding the well researched and documented facts that this books gives you.
Read this if you care about your body and what your food.
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