Felicity Lawrence

Globalization has affected what we eat in ways we are only beginning to understand. Modern food production no longer relates to our biological needs but is in direct conflict with them. The relationship between diet and our fertility, our risk of cancer, heart disease and mental illness is becoming clearer. Yet much of our food is nutritionally bankrupt. In her revelatory new book, Felicity Lawrence travels from Lincolnshire to Brazil to Senegal to investigate. She shows how new forms of colonization ensure the west retains economic control over the developing world; how slavery has re-emerged in food production; how millions are spent on marketing to persuade us from a very young age that we want foods we don't need. Her book is essential reading for anyone who cares about their health and what they eat - or how the world is run today.

Cómo el negocio de la alimentación perjudica la salud, la economía y el medio ambiente ¿A qué se debe que? la mayoría de alimentos procesados estén elaborados a partir de los mismos ingredientes? ¿Y que esos pocos ingredientes sean fabricados por un puñado de multinacionales? ¿Cómo han llegado los cereales a convertirse en el desayuno principal de millones de niños en el mundo si se les acusa de ser menos nutritivos que el paquete que los contiene? ¿Y por qué hoy día el 60 por ciento de los alimentos procesados contiene soja? ¿O no se nos advierte de que el azúcar puede perjudicar tanto la salud como el tabaco? Felicity Lawrence, periodista especializada en temas de alimentación, realiza un sobrecogedor recorrido por los secretos de las grandes corporaciones agroalimentarias para revelar cómo esas multinacionales manipulan nuestros hábitos alimenticios? y nuestras ideas. Una lectura fundamental para hacer frente a la amenaza que supone la actual industria de la alimentación para la salud y la de todo el planeta

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 all wines taste the same. She meets the hidden armies of migrant workers exploited throughout Britain on whom our supermarkets depend. And she shows how obesity, blighted town centres, motorways clogged with juggernauts, environmentally ravaged fields in Europe and starving smallholders in Africa are all intricately related aspects of our newly globalized, industrialized system of 21st-century food production.