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Not on the Label

What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate

Felicity Lawrence

ISBN: 9780141015668
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

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In a series of undercover investigations tracking some of the most popular foods we eat at home, Felicity Lawrence, travels from farms and factories to packhouses and lorry depots across the world. She discovers why beef waste ends up in chicken, why a third of apples are thrown away, why bread is full of water and air. She meets the hidden armies of migrant workers exploited throughout Britain on whom our supermarkets depend. And she shows how obesity, blighted town…

This is 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.