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“Swindled”

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The prevalence of foods stuffed with unwholesome additives might seem a modern problem, but Bee Wilson’s Swindled shows that the history of food adulteration is as long as it is disgusting.

Compared with 19th-century staples such as sweets coloured with lead, contemporary horrors seem relatively benign. Wilson’s approach is measured and often very funny, but her major point is a serious one: the greater the amount of processing we allow our food to undergo, the greater the likelihood it will be adulterated in ways that can be extremely harmful.

Swindled is compelling, but you might want to finish that milkshake before you pick it up.

Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – the Dark History of the Food Cheats
Bee Wilson
John Murray, 2008

-- By Alyssa McDonald

Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited 2009

 

 

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系统为何失效

就像所有营养物质从“白米”中流失一样,之后最多再加上几种新的来强化营养。理由只是为了多赚钱,因为没有健康方面的原因促使这件事发生。想想烟草,有很多科学依据来解释吸烟多么有害,但就算知道这些,人们照吸。大型商业部门甚至赞美吸烟,说这与好情绪有关系...然而,更多的时候,他们是从大家的痛苦而不是顾客中盈利。除非我们提升自身道德,改邪归正的能力不会防止我们彼此互相作恶...我们的领导不应该是贪得无厌、为特殊利益集团服务的富裕、贪污腐化的官员...但因为公众的容忍,这却发生了。允许坏事发生,更重要的是,社会没有道德准则...只消看看美国的电视节目:谋杀、掠夺、贪污和贪婪。罪犯们要让公众失去道德,否则他们
就不会允许并承认他们的罪行。

以上评论由Emily Li翻译。

Why the System Fails

It's just like "white rice" whereall the nutrients are taken out, and then it's fortified with a few nutrients at best. The reason is just make more money, as there is no healthy or practical reason for doing so.

Consider cigarettes, there are lots of scientific reasons how harmful smoking is, but despite knowing the facts, individuals continue to do it.

Big business even glorifies smoking cigarettes to be associated with happiness...

While all the time, they profit from the misery of its customers... who die using their product.

Unless we improve our morality, the ability to distinguish right from wrong isn't going to prevent us from doing bad things to each other...

Our leaders shouldn't be rich, wealthy and corrupt officials with endless greed to satisfy themselves and serve special interest groups..

But, that happens because the public tolerates suffering, it allows bad things to happen and most of all, the society is without morality...

Just look at the U.S. television shows, murder, rape, corruption and greed. The criminals want the public to be without their morality, otherwise they wouldn't allow and accept the present state of immorality.


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