Genre: Food writing. Reading challenge: The 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge , hosted by The Introverted Reader Challenge tally : 4 books. I love to read food books, both foodie memoirs and cookbooks, but this is a different kind of food book - one designed to inform and make you think about what you eat and how you shop for it. The subtitle of this book is "What really goes into the food on your plate". It might lead you to believe that it's all about food additives and such (they are mentioned occasionally, and discussed - stomach churningly - in some detail in the last chapter) but it is actually an investigation of the whole system of mass food production, from crop to factory to distributors to shop to consumer, with a focus on intensively grown/farmed foods like vegetables, fruit, coffee, chicken and shrimp. The situation Lawrence describes is that of the UK, but much of it is valid for any western country, and I have no doubt it is at least partially...
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