In fact, we're thinking that the opposite is true. .
While scientists are mucking about with our food, the evidence is that we want less, not more, technological input. This is what's driving demand for organic food and why it is currently outstripping normal supply. .
Yes, we can take better care of ourselves by eating more fruit and vegetables and less salt, sugar and processed food - but can we be sure it's as safe as we think? I know I don't want to discover that fresh food isn't really fresh, or that carrots need to be peeled because they're contaminated with pesticides, or that apples have been waxed into cosmetic perfection. Equally we don't want to be wound up unnecessarily by every new scare and passing fad. .
The gap between industry and consumer is still very wide. The industry views the consumer as blinded by the issues of look rather that ingredient make-uup.The industry says let the market forces rule, keep big business not big government. But they have done nothing to prevent turning the market-place upside down by producing genetically modified soya into the wholesale opposition. This is covering up a mistake with corporate-style. .
The Government says it will create a Food Standards Agency to confront these many challenges. But wait don we already have one? This is the first welcome step but the lessons of food scares suggest that it's going to take more than one well-meaning cooperation to sort out all of the problems. Industry and government will need to act in uncharacteristic ways - openly, and actively. .
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In the mean time we as the consumer are stuck with the ecoli chicken, the GMO filled corn and we cant forget about America's favorie snack: The Listeria filled hot dog. I bet you don't know much about theese contaminates that are in your body everyday. So just before you all go to lunch I;m going to explain them to you.
Let's start with Listeria. The bug: Listeria monocytogenes is only one bacterium in the listeria family of bacteria, but it's the dangerous one.