are you losing faith in the food industry ?

debtworrier

Willpower? wrote:

Yes you do see a lot of products with 'organic' on them with no indication as to which standard (if any) they produced to. If I get the choice I always go for the ones with the Soil Association mark on them.

I've always believed that 'organic' meant "unregulated price hike." I'll believe what I'm eating is organic when I've grown it, and not otherwise. Consequently I don't buy anything labelled organic in supermarkets if I have a choice, because I believe the only thing I'm buying is wishful thinking.

debtworrier

"Home-made wine: Down to £0.55p per bottle"

How are you making your wine, Sideways?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

an interesting book for you to read..

is called not on the label..
what really goes into the food on your plate.....
by felicity lawrance..

i bought this book a few years ago.. when iseen the author on this morning......

and its a right eye opener......
' 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 packhouse and lorry depots accross the world.... she discovers why beef waste ends up in chicken... why a third of all apples are thrown away.. why all wines taste the same.....etc..

a very interesting book.... might read it again to remind me why i dont trust the food industry.......

ZTD

Well I always remember back round about 96 or 97, during the BSE crisis. A couple of butchers were caught putting beef into their lamb mince (beef was not selling well at the time). They were caught. They were prosecuted. Then "a major supermarket in North London" was caught doing the same. They were not prosecuted - they were not even named.

Money talks. And also silences.

gerretl

I had a really good conversation with a friend last night. Her twelve year old boy enjoys cooking, and can make to basic meals. This is probably going to be of much for use than 'citizenship' or some soft social science course, after all you are more likely to impress a woman with a plate of coq au vin, than a discussion about the demographic make up of british inner citys. (Mind you if the lady is more impressed by the latter, run away, very fast)
More seriously, the food chain has so much rubbish in it, that it is going ot keep circulating for years. The media don't help, jumping on every scare story til we become jaded by it. Watching breakfast news is painful. If a health professional says there is very little to worry about, the journalists keep badgering them to say 'stock up on tinned food, cos the shops may be closing permanently'. Western society has to make the choice of having too much information to assimilate, or trusting experts to feed only the essential data down.
The words 'pillar' and 'post' come to mind.
Thats my ha'pennys worth.

ZTD

This whole thing of where we can not trust the food we put in our mouths is the result of various chickens coming home to roost (an unfortunate pun... ) , one of which is that we depict too many things with the attributes of people. There was a series on about recreating a 1950's school. In it, modern children had to snap the necks of chickens. How many people here think they can do that? If not, why not?

This leads to the "neccessity" of disguising the fact that meat originated as living animals. "Turkey Twizzlers" for example. Unfortunately this overwhelming acceptance of ultra-processing lets rather unfortunate ingredients (sudan-1 for example) and practices (feeding meat to vegetarian animals) enter our food chain.

ivyleaf

A very interesting thread!

When I went to a (fairly) local "Farm" Shop a while ago, everything had been bought in from elsewhere - it's put me off trying any others.

ZTD

ivyleaf wrote:

A very interesting thread!

When I went to a (fairly) local "Farm" Shop a while ago, everything had been bought in from elsewhere - it's put me off trying any others.

Don't let it. One farm shop I go to, you drive past the cows (with numbered tags in their ears) to get to the shop.

Yes, those are THE cows. When their number comes up - it comes up on a blackboard.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i feel that some business people are jumping on the band wagon with farm shops.......

when we think of the original farm shop it was the farmer selling what he had grown/ produced etc......

now there are so called farm shops just selling fresh produce that they pick up from wholesalers......i am not saying all farm shops are like this....

its like an optical illusion.... you see it so you think it is what it is... but its not.....

its the same.. when you see the logo britsh standard....with the tractor......

you automatically think the item is british.... its not.... its play on words and the eye......

we have become so detached from the source of our food.......that sometimes we are blind to whats really going on.....imo...


i have totally lost faith in the food industry... and the food that we eat on times......

ZTD

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

its the same.. when you see the logo britsh standard....with the tractor......

Really? What's up with this?