The real cost of industrialized agriculture
There are no short cuts to producing, safe, healthy, nutritious food. If the food is cheap, someone, somewhere is doing something that you would rather they didn’t. It could be
- spraying the food with pesticides to reduce labour costs
- adding ‘filler’ to the product in the form of genetically modified waste products such as corn starch
- using poorly paid migrant labour
- adding toxic chemicals to baby milk and animal feed to make them appear to be more nutritious
As if we didn’t already have enough positive reasons to buy local, sustainably grown food, China keeps providing us with even more negative reasons.
“Chinese Melamine Scandal Widens”
Tags: consumerism, food, political