What Are You Really Eating?

[humbersloop]

I know everybody has to find the balance of circumstances between money, time and fresh food's availablity, and there's a limit to most peoples' choices.

Even so, reading this today - and apologies, it's lengthy - made my blood run cold.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food

[pastafreak]

Horrifying stuff. I couldn't read it all,but when I saw the author was Joanna Blythman,I knew it would be hard hitting. She's one of the best food journalists around.

[Zacs-Master]

Well, so far today I've had a fish finger butty, half a box of thorntons chocolates and a dinner meat and chicken pizza. Oh, and I'm on my second strong cider.

[Zacs-Master]

Donner

[humbersloop]

*dinner meat* - chemically induced dyslexia already then zacs?

pasta, sometimes I think the food industry makes Big Pharma look principled...

[Zacs-Master]

ha ha, looks like it. I'll eat some veg tomorrow. I did have a glass of grapefruit joos earlier.

[ethandron]

I do my best to cook everything from scratch, sometimes it's not possible but I'm not going to stress about it. We live in the real world and that's just the way it is :)

[Psybbo]

Thanks for that Sloopy, I just rushed through the magazine today so hadn't read it, did wonder about the picture of the massive cheese though xx

[Slapshot]

We buy fresh and cook fresh.... I like to know whats in what we eat, eat very little processed food

[seadogg]

Regarding vegetables, eat nowt wi'out a bit of muck on it. Eat no bread you haven't kneaded and baked and buy no "food" made in a factory. Alas a counsel of perfection unless you enjoy doing it.

[pixie373]

I think it's sensationalism. The number of people I know who've eaten nothing but processed foods for decades and live until 100...

[humbersloop]

pix, decades?? I'd suggest it wasn't possible to eat only highly processed foods until relatively recently. However, the point here is it's the utter *** that's silently getting into day to day stuff people buy in good faith

[wired]

I usually cook from scratch, never buy take always have lots of fresh fruit and veg, make bread, buy meat that is locally bred and slaughtered, make sure that the milk is British , but what about the air that I breath?

[LyndaB]

How do people imagine that fruit and veg stays so fresh looking on the supermarket shelf? And ready made cakes with a shelf life of weeks and weeks? Magic? I try as far as possible to cook most things from scratch but it isn't always possible. I don't worry about it as we do have a fairly well balanced diet

[brionon]

I'm pretty sure that All meat eaters are eating Halal without knowing it .