Secret Ingredients
The Brave New World of Industrial Farming
You are what you eat, but do you know what is in the food you're eating - or how it's grown?Chicken, corn, potatoes, a slice of bread, and a glass of milk. Where does a meal like this come from? Who and what is involved in getting it to your table? Most Canadians don't know - and will be shocked to find out that, while we were snacking, farming has been transformed. Today, once-independent farmers work on contract for huge food corporations, growing genetically modified food in soil saturated with chemicals. Farming is big business and has become a matter of world trade regulations that favour global corporations. Laidlaw, in investigating th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7710-4596-7
- EAN: 9780771045967
- Produktnummer: 9894936
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Über den Autor
Stuart Laidlaw is a member of the Toronto Star's editorial board, and has led the newspaper's coverage of farm and agricultural issues in Canada.
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