Perfectly Safe to Eat?: The Facts on Food Book

Consumer concern about the food we eat continues to grow, with increases in food scares fuelling the fire. In truth, most of us eat healthily and suffer little, but the increasing use of pesticides and seemingly "immoral" practices that take place in order to get food onto the supermarket shelves are indeed worrying.In Perfectly Safe to Eat Vicki Hurd looks closely at the food we use as fuel and examines the truth, as well as the myths, surrounding the production of the food we take for granted. From the way food is actually grown to the government policies that control each strand of the production chain, Hurd--who is the Policy Director of Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming--explains what has happened to the food we put on our plates and the effects it has not only on our bodies but on the environment and the rest of the world. Fascinating to the last, there is perhaps a slight tendency towards ranting but nonetheless Perfectly Safe to Eat is a thorough and well-written examination of the food industry that everyone who cares about their own health, and that of their loved ones, should read. --Susan HarrisonRead More