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06/16/2008: "Why the Food Business Is Bad for the Planet and Your Health"

The result has been a kind of food Fordism. We are fed a production-line diet that is homogenised and bolted together from standard commodity parts. The parts, many of them created out of American agricultural surpluses, are largely controlled by an oligopoly of US-based trading and processing companies - Cargill, ADM, Bunge - that are little known in the UK. All three companies are now expanding in China and heavily involved in spreading the western industrialised diet, with its unsustainable dependence on fossil fuels and extravagant use of grains. As the Chinese move up this processed-food chain, the diet-related diseases that have afflicted us in the west are growing there too.

[ It's worth reading the article. The food business has become extremely corrupt. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/16/food.biofuels

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on Monday, June 16th, Dental Plan said

Sorry, but "Green offers from GurdianEcostore" killed the whole thing for me. Not my fault I have an intense loathing for profiteer bullshit.

What they don't mention is something that Heinz openly reveals on their website: The meaning of the "Circle U" symbol that appears on most packaged foods (at least in the US) these days. Those who are particularly intolerant just might have the audacity to ask why the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has to approve of nearly every edible thing sold in our stores.