This is the class blog for the Spring 2011 Environmental Studies Capstone at the College of Charleston
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Eat this Not That!!!
I have recently started reading the book entitled "Eat This Not That", which clams to be a supermarket survival guide. In the beginning of this book it explains the little bonus ingredients that the FDA allows in you food. For example, canned pineapples are allowed to have 20% of moldy fruit, canned tomatoes can have up to 5 fly eggs or 2 maggots per 500 grams, frozen broccoli can have up to 60 mites per 100 grams, Popcorn( which is considered to be on of the healthy snack foods) is allowed to have 1 rodent pellet in one sample or 2 rodent hairs per pound, and so on. I don't know about you but I never seen this in any type of advertisement or on any packages when buying these types of food. I thought this was interesting because people including me in our society freak out when we see a piece of hair in our food and the government will not allow unlicensed cooks and bakers to sale food out of a none certified kitchen, but its okay if industries let a couple of maggots slide through. WHAT ?!? They say that these amounts are not harmful to you health but who's to say they are not going to make you sick. I have now started reading the calorie portion of this book where they express false listed calories on packaged food and compare different "Low calorie" meals.
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