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  Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate (Paperback) By (author) Felicity Lawrence

  Book rating: 05

  

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  Short Description for Not on the LabelDiscusses the state of the food production industry in Britain. This title takes a look at 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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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 July 2005
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Consumerism | Food Manufacturing & Related Industries | Miscellaneous Items
  • ISBN 13: 9780141015668 ISBN 10: 0141015667
  • Sales rank: 51,301

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Reviews for Not on the Label

• Great book! :)Book rating: 5

  I don't have time to write a full review, but I am very happy with this purchase. Felicity Lawrence investigates the food industry, not only in Britain, but worldwide. This is a reference for many other articles and books dedicated to the same topic - but it is nicely written, in simple language. My english vocabulary is not great, but I understand everything in this book, and I've learned a lot! This is an exiting read, and I will definitively think twice before buying washed and bagged lettuce from the supermarket.
  
  For scandinavians, I also recommend "Den hemmelige kokken" by Mats-Eric Nilsson, which is written on the same topic, but more speficially about the swedish market.
  
  
  Did you know that:
  
  - Bagged ready-to-eat lettuce is washed and desinfected with chlorine. "The chlorine level is usually maintained at a minimum of 50 mg per litre - twenty times higher than in the averge swimming pool."? (p. 31)
  
  - The chicken available in stores might be mixed with protein from beef-waste, which makes it possible to add water to the product, to make it look bigger. Muslims might regard this as an etichal problem. by Mari Arnekleiv Bækkelund

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