Customer Reviews
Wake up! - By: Lester Fontayne, 26 Aug 2008 
I found this book informative, revelatory & utterly compelling. You should definitely read it if you'd like to know more about how our food is adulterated beyond belief by the handful of faceless transnational corporations who control a vast amount of our food chain. The corollary of their unceasing quest to increase the "value added" to their products is that our food is nutrient-depleted to such an extent that we'd be better off eating the packaging their expensive, processed junk comes in.
I too found this a better read than "Not On The Label"in that it explained more thoroughly the health implications of moving away from a diet that has evolved naturally over several thousand years to one that was artificially manufacturedin the second half of the last century - seemingly notin the best interests of consumers but rather to line the pockets of agribusiness & to further the geo-political aims of successive American & European governments. There's plenty of "and now the science bit" but, whilst being quite detailed, I never found it difficult to follow.
Before reading "Eat Your Heart Out" I felt a growing uneasiness about the direction our over-processed, convenience-led food supply was taking us. Now I feel much more informed about the damage that is being done to our health & society.
This book will open your eyes & may even radicalize you a little. It really is breathtaking what has happened to our dietsin the course of just a few decades. Thankfully, the author remains (just) optomistic that we've not passed the point of no return, & that a deal of the damage can be undone. But that's gonna have to start with individuals changing their buying habits & modifying their lifestyles. "Eat Your Heart Out" explains exactly why you should start today.
Absolutely Brilliant - By: Mr. G. Child, 31 Jul 2008 I loved this book. I was engrossed from the very first page, & the more I read, the more I was appalled at state of the world's food systems. I am simply shocked at the modern day slavery, & the embarrassing inabilities of our governments to be able to control corporate power or even obtain taxes from these giants.
I liked the combination of economics, ethics, politics & food & nutritionin this book. I couldn't really get into Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate because I thought I already shopped ethically & healthily. However reading this has changed my view of everything, I can see how everything is linked, where those who control us are headed, & how it's notin the direction I would like.
Saddened & frustrated, I am also inspired to become pro-active & change what piece of the world I can. I am determined to stop any more of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by soya growing corporate giants, & to end the mafia run slaveryin Italy, where our tomatoes are farmed.
I think to draw my own conclusions from this book that there must be a radical reform to our own political systems. Capitalism has it's benefits, but it should never have been limitless. I think capitalism needs to be cappedin order to control growth, & empower the social ethics that are so key to quality of life. I have never understood why people are so obsessed with the bottom line, even to the point where they destroy their own earth. For this to happen though it would mean that politicians would need to be more powerful than corporations.
