Supermarket Secrets
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialize in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think.
Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food. (Excerpt from channel4.com)
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It’s so easy to blame just one side. They’re far from being perfect but don’t you think that we, as consumers are not responsible for whats happening as well??
I am conitually surprised in docos such as this that the that the nutrient value of food is not commented on extensively. It was pointed out that Omega 3 content in milk can be as much as 7 times less than it was in the 50s. Let along the deliberate denuding of nuturients in more overtly processed food!
Hi Olek, If there is one thing we can all agree on, it is that “we” are not to blame. “We” are good people, and so there must be some “bad” people who are truly responsible. ;>)
we as consumers are being manipulated by creative advertising. who is ultimately at fault is our governments for letting them get away with it. the supposed controls that are in place are biased to benefit the profits of the companies that exploit them. with all the hunger in the world, look at the amount of food that gets produced to be thrown away because it doesn’t fit the esthetic profile that the supermarkets insist upon. because of this esthetic profiling, the actual nutritional value of the food we consume declines. you dont have to be einstein to figure out why the human race is becoming ******, fat & ignorant – we are eating low quality nutritional food, which is processed, manipulated & full of chemicals / additives. remember what granny used to say ” you are what you eat “.
george, you really think that when it all comes down to it it’s ultimately government to blame? That makes no sense.
Do you honestly think government should have that much control over advertising? I mean really?
Where the hell are we going?