An interesting read - but very, very depressing. It is another exposé of what the desire to make money has done to our food and of course our overall health. One of the products the author writes about a lot is the chicken. When he describes a chicken from yesteryear I have to admit it didn't sound very appetizing. But when he described the taste, my mouth was watering. Here is just one bit of information about chickens. " In 1870 a 3 1/2-ounce piece of chicken contained just under 4 grams of fat. By 1970, that number had risen to 8.6 grams, and by 2004 chicken was packing more than 20 grams." Or how about this quote: "What chickens eat ends up in their bodies. This is why modern broiler farmers add a yellow pigment to chicken feed- so the chickens on the supermarket shelf will look the same as chickens that have been running around outside eating leaves." It is just disgusting what is being done to our food. Most books about food make me hungry - this one made me look at everything I eat and wonder what it was supposed to taste like!
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