Monday, May 21, 2012

We must take back control of our food, before it's too late

Guardian: We are living through a delicious disaster. Never has so much food been offered to us from so many parts of the world, and in such elaborate combinations. The average supermarket carries over 45,000 different product lines, and yet the provenance of most of these products are utterly opaque. The government has handed control of the food chain over to the supermarkets – and with it, any meaningful sense of the common good. Take fish. There is a crisis in our oceans – according to the WWF as many...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/21/control-food-resources-supermarket
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/5/21/1337610343443/Paris-buffet-in-the-Latin-008.jpg

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