'Organic' food is a huge con!

[Stogie]

With animals i always buy british pork...

British pork almost certainly comes outside the UK. Study the rules carefully. If any Briton has any stake, however small, in a pork farm anywhere in the world then the pork can be said to be British or British reared. What you should look for is "Pork raised IN the UK" although I would hesitate to believe it.

Get this: In a survey it was found that a quarter of pubs were selling Brazilian beef as 'British' or 'Local!'

Chickens? Free range? Be honest, how do you think they sell 50 million 'free range' chickens each year? There isn't enough farm land in the UK for a start! Check the rules on what constitutes 'free range' and it's pretty much a coop except it's not multilayered.

Do you think you are buying 'COD' in your local chippy? I'll bet a pound to a penny that you are NOT. It's just way too expensive for the chippies to buy it (not to mention difficult to get hold of) when farmed catfish from Vietnam is a much cheaper alternative. (When it's cooked you won't know the difference.)

Basmati rice, virgin olive oil, mozzarella cheese and Arabica coffee beans... don't think you are getting the real thing. You aren't.

Like everything in the UK from the top to the bottom it's a massive fiddle.

[katoeylover]

Another load of bollocks

Chickens? Free range? Be honest, how do you think they sell 50 million 'free range' chickens each year? There isn't enough farm land in the UK for a start! Check the rules on what constitutes 'free range' and it's pretty much a coop except it's not multilayered.

Do you think you are buying 'COD' in your local chippy? I'll bet a pound to a penny that you are NOT. It's just way too expensive for the chippies to buy it (not to mention difficult to get hold of) when farmed catfish from Vietnam is a much cheaper alternative. (When it's cooked you won't know the difference.)

Basmati rice, virgin olive oil, mozzarella cheese and Arabica coffee beans... don't think you are getting the real thing. You aren't.

Like everything in the UK from the top to the bottom it's a massive fiddle.

you get what you pay for. you buy cheap - you get cheap. you spend the correct amount and you get what you want.

end of.

Labelling law is very strictly adhered to in the UK, and many have been fined substantial amounts for violation.

[Master Bator]

(kahuna @ Jul. 30 2009,12:48) I love orgasmic food...

Protein shakes mmmm yummy

[Stogie]

(katoeylover @ Aug. 05 2009,10:18) Another load of bollocks...

He he... You can believe what you want to.

I worked in a chippy on the Isle of Wight for two seasons as a younger man and outside was a clapperboard with the words "Freshly battered cod!"

I can promise you that it was neither fresh nor cod!

But it WAS freshly battered each day!

you get what you pay for. you buy cheap - you get cheap. you spend the correct amount and you get what you want... end of

You are a very trusting person. The British retail industry loves you!

Labelling law is very strictly adhered to in the UK, and many have been fined substantial amounts for violation...

The food labeling 'laws' are almost entirely voluntary and 'industry run' in the UK and are NOT legally binding for the most part. They are also extremely deceptive and complicated. Politicians have fought (weakly) for years to introduce legislation to make the labeling easier to understand and also to contain certain information, but the food industry is definitely mightier than the soft sacks of shit we have in government.

Here are a few of the most common ways that you are scammed:

One of the most common tricks is to distribute sugars among many ingredients so that sugars don't appear in the top three. For example, a manufacturer may use a combination of sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, brown sugar, dextrose and other sugar ingredients to make sure none of them are present in large enough quantities to attain a top position on the ingredients list (remember, the ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the food, with the most common ingredients listed first).

This fools consumers into thinking the food product isn't really made mostly of sugar while, in reality, the majority ingredients could all be different forms of sugar. It's a way to artificially shift sugar farther down the ingredients list and thereby misinform consumers about the sugar content of the whole product.

Another trick is to pad the list with miniscule amounts of great-sounding ingredients. You see this in personal care products and shampoo, too, where companies claim to offer "herbal" shampoos that have practically no detectable levels of real herbs in them. In foods, companies pad the ingredients lists with healthy-sounding berries, herbs or superfoods that are often only present in miniscule amounts. Having "spirulina" appear at the end of the ingredients list is practically meaningless. This trick is called "label padding" and it's commonly used by fast food places who want to jump on the health food bandwagon without actually producing any healthy foods.

A third trick involves hiding dangerous ingredients behind innocent-sounding names that fool consumers into thinking they're safe. The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers.

Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."

A food labeled 'all natural' can contain pesticides, herbicides, heavy metal toxins, hidden MSG, synthetic chemical vitamins, and a host of other non-natural substances. 'Natural' does not mean organic. In fact it means fuck all. As there is no official definition for 'natural food', food producers and manufacturers can call anything natural.

The name of the food product has nothing to do with what€™s in it. For instance, a €œcheese cracker€ doesn€™t have to contain any cheese, or a €œfruit juice€ doesn€™t have to comprise any drop of real fruit juice...

Fuck me, I could go on forever but you'll still go to Waitrose convinced it's better 'quality' than Tesco's!

It's a massive global deception going on, and it's a bit naive to think that if you pay more you'll get better quality. You might... Just might... but M & S sandwiches are made by the same immigrants as the ones in the local newsagents. Much nicer packaging in M & S, though, eh?

[Stogie]

And what about the bags you put the food in? Tesco's are scamming us again!

They misleadingly claimed to have more than halved the number of plastic bags it hands out to shoppers, but if you have ever been to a Tesco's recently you'll wonder exactly how!

The supermarket said last month that its customers were 'using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before'. However, Tesco was forced to admit that its figures were calculated in a different way to the official statistics!

Rather than reflecting the actual reduction in bags used, its figure had been adjusted to take into account the growth in the number of customers and stores.

I personally don't give a fuck how many plastic bags they hand out, but why fudge the truth about it?

Scam UK... It's all around you!