Where does your food come from?

[calzephyr]

I wish the fids would eat Harrison's all the time, then I wouldn't have to worry about bird food recalls. I buy Budgie Gourmet, which says 'Made in Canada' but I'm not sure if it really is. We received a package of maple flavoured coffee at Christmas which proudly proclaimed "Product of Canada". Well, unless some part of Canada exists in a parallel universe where "100% Colombian coffee" is grown, it's not really Canadian. The problem is a number of regulations that allow something to be called "Product of Canada" if enough of the processing is done here. It's all revealed in a CBC Marketplace segment. I'm disappointed that one of the products featured, Highliner salmon fillets, turns out to be fished in Russia, processed in China, then shipped around to Nova Scotia for more processing. It's environmental overkill and I won't be buying it again.

And if you care to know more, particularly from restaurants that don't release nutritional information, check out the Calorie Confidential segment. You may never order Applebee's spinach dip again :-D

Comments

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Have you read "The Omnivore's Dilemma"? It's a fascinating look at modern food production and processing.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't, thanks, I just Googled it...I'll definitely put it on my reading list. Modern food production scares me, and at the same time I feel trapped as a consumer, especially with misleading labelling.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

The author has a new book that just came out called "In Defense of Food" that talks about how to choose what you eat. It's *not* a "diet book" but more of a "philosophy of eating" book, from what I understand.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I was just looking at his website again...I think I'll start with The Botany of Desire and see how far I go. It's taking a long time to read Con$umed. It's a thoughtful book, but a very high brow one, and the author reaches back to philosophical concepts I don't understand or am not familiar with. I feel a little dumb!