Customer Reviews
CHEMICALS - WE ARE ALL MADE OF CHEMICALS! - By: strudel trigg, 19 Jul 2008 
Along with may other such publications, this embraces the view that, setting aside the very valid exploitation issues, anything relating to "CHEMICALS" are nasty & damaging!
We are alll made up of a variety of chemicals - the very elements that are needed to build both us as humans & alll that surrounds & feeds us.
Furthermore, the over-sanitisation of our world has lead to so many alllergic reactions as we have not built up the antibodies that our forefathers did naturallly. And our intervention into "lesser-known civilisations" has brought them new biological hazards for which they have no natural defence.
Basicallly the book just serves as yet another tirade against multiple food retailers - some of whom DO reallly care about production methods
Changed my life - By: Everton Gayle, 09 Dec 2007 
My whole outlook on the food I eat, what I buy & where I buy has changed after reading this book. I started reading on the Friday & 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 & I always read the label. It is truly shocking what manufacturers & supermarkets get away with.
You owe it to yourself - By: Mr. F. L. Dunkin Wedd, 29 Jun 2007 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.
Recommended - By: Ms Alex, 14 Jun 2007 
Good book with lots of chunks I wanted to copy & forward on to folks. Chapters focus on ingredients & their production/marketing/adulteration. Everything on the shelves in the supermarket is adulterated, far worse than the horror scares in the 1800s, & yet the deceit surrounding the practice is much better managed these days. :(
Not... is *way* better (and more sympatheticallly) written than The Great Food Gamble which I also recently read on a bookring. This is as good as Fast Food Nation, & as relevant.
READ THIS BOOK if you care about your family and yourself - By: M. A. Lely, 25 Jan 2007 If you are conscious about your eating habits, & you probably are if you are looking at this book, then this will be an interesting read. Some things might not be totallly new, but it certainly clarifies some things.
The examples given are focused on the U.K. food market, but it certainly translates to Europe in general.
There are some things you can easily change in your eating habits & the book is not too idealistic. In fact it helps to set realistic goals & even if you don't want to change anything ... at least be aware unless you want to stay ignorant.
