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Tangled Web UK: New Current Affairs Titles 2002

Joanna Blythman Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets Pbk published July 2004 by 4th Estate at £12.99 ISBN: 0 00 715803 3

Our nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of supermarkets. In the 1950s, they had only 20% of Britain’s grocery spend. Now they control 80% and are hungry for more.
Have you ever sensed that all was not right in this shiny world of supermarkets yet been seduced by their apparent convenience, choice and value?
Award winning food journalist Joanna Blythman goes behind the scenes of the supermarket revolution and reveals its human costs, working on the checkout, visiting ghost town high streets, meeting downtrodden suppliers, surveying a landscape increasingly designed to feed supermarket profits, exposing the illusion of choice on our shelves that disguises a loss of true diversity, quality and flavour.
‘Blythman has bravely and compellingly exposed the corrosive effect of supermarkets on our farming and our food culture. And she has rightly identified you, the consumer, as the only person who can do anything about it. Don’t read it and weep, Read it and change the way you shop.’ Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
‘With a coolness that is, in the circumstances, remarkable, Joanna Blythman demonstrates the proof of what many of us have long suspected - that supermarkets practise a doucely tyrannical form of totalitarianism.’ Jonathan Meades
About The Author
Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist and an influential commentator on the British food chain. She has won four prestigious Glenfiddich awards for her writing, including a Glenfiddich Special Award for her first book The Food We Eat, a Caroline Walker Media Award for ‘Improving the Nation’s Health by Means of Good Food’, and a Guild of Food Writers Award for The Food We Eat. She has also written two other groundbreaking books, How to Avoid GM Food and The Food Our Children Eat. She writes and broadcasts frequently on food issues.

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Felicity Lawrence Not on the Label Pbk published June 2004 by Penguin at £7.99 ISBN: 0 141 01566 7

What Realy Goes Into The Food On Your Plate
We no longer trust what we eat. We lurch instead from food scare to food scare while farming is in crisis around the world. A handful of retailers and food manufacturers exert unprecedented control over what we eat and where we buy it. We have come to depend on processed food that is routinely adulterated.
In a series of undercover investigations tracking some of the most popular foods we eat at home, Felicity Lawrence travels from farms and factories to packhouses and lorry depots across the world. She discovers why beef waste ends up in chicken, why a third of apples are thrown away, why bread is full of water and air. She meets the hidden armies of migrant workers exploited throughout Britain on whom our supermarkets depend. And she shows how obesity, blighted town-centres, motorways clogged with juggernauts, environmentally ravaged fields in Europe and starving smallholders in Africa are all intricately related aspects of our newly globalized, industrialized system of twenty-first-century food production.

About The Author
Felicity Lawrence is an award-winning journalist and editor who has been writing on food-related issues for over twenty years. She is consumer affairs correspondent for the Guardian and lives in London.

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