THE Dispatches episode Dirty Secrets Of American Food: Coming To A Supermarket Near You? was aired on Channel 4 on Monday evening at 8pm. In my opinion, this programme is essential viewing for anyone who values their health and wants to know what they are eating.
The cocktail of chemicals, carcinogens, poisons, hormones, faeces and other health hazards in American food processing, and the effects they have on the human body and mind, is stomach-churning. So is the way they treat their farm animals.
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During the programme I said to my partner that I would rather become vegetarian than eat this stuff. We were then informed that their fruit and veg are subjected to similar processes.
I don’t want to live in a society where the wealth of the few is more important than the health of everyone else but, I fear that this is where we are heading if we don’t break the Westminster stranglehold.
John Izatt
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