febrero 19, 2008

The dark history of the food cheats


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/yyhealth/
You and Yours - Health
BBC Radio 4

The new I listen is so interesting because is a presentation of a book that talks about food adulteration with a little view of the subject over the centuries.Nowadays is an important subject because sometimes we didn´t know if we can trust in our food, because we can catch an stomach illness or something worst.
But wich is the problem?
According to the book´s writter swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history. From the leaded wine of ancient Rome, to the food piracy of the 21st century. A clear evidence is a book of food adulteration that appeared on 1820. Food has been padded, poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, and faked, science and pollution could be the principal player in this story.They mentioned as an example coffee and sweets, because there´s a lot of worried parents that think that poisson sweets affected children behavior. It could be possible and the “guilty” is from the colors that the producers use to elaborate it, in the coffee they give the example of the milk with contaminate water.
The advice of the new and of these two examples teach us that we have to read the information of the package to know what we are eating, to protect ourselves. Because despite all the rules we can find cheaters in every market.

1 comentario:

Verónica Poujol dijo...

Hi there!

I found the news interesting too. I believe it is important to get informed on these matters, specially if you have young kids, and even foryourself. One grammar thing: because....always preceeds a pronoun or noun, the same with Nowadays, example: Because is posible...wrong, because IT is possible, right.....

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