Monday, October 6, 2008

Warning - Eat Food With One Ingredient Only

More evidence, if more were needed, that much of the food industry's priority is profit and that customer's health and long-term welfare is lower on it's list than its balance sheet. The scandals of pet food adulteration and the crap that some processing companies added to pet food formulae to bring it up to 'spec' seems to have passed inevitably to the human food industry. So we have the spectacle of children being diagnosed with kidney stones because some bright spark thought melamine was a protein additive with which they could safely bulk up their product undetected. They'd have probably got away with it except they got the proportions wrong and overdosed hundreds of children and it all blew up in their faces. But it goes to show the old adage that 'the more they f**k about with it, the less you want to eat it' is a survival technique for the 21st century. They will scarf up your food and sh*t all over it if it makes an extra few pence. Link.