Marta Veenhof’s Reviews > The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It > Status Update

"Corporations, especially American corporations, have only one concern: maximizing short-term profit, usually on a quarterly basis, along with the salaries and other perks of the upper management teams (...) corporations have one goal only: profit. Everything else, including your health and mine, (...) is just an annoying distraction."

http://www.cityfarmer.info/

The boomerang effect: "some multinational chemical companies that continued to sell or dump large quantities of chemicals overseas because they could. They were legal over there, just not here. U.S. manufacturers exported more than 465 million pounds of pesticides in 1990, while more than 52 million pounds were banned, restricted, or unregistered for use in the U.S.."

"... the nutritional content of food in North America has been steadily declining for at least the past 50 years, and probably longer. Meanwhile, the amount of toxic or potentially toxic contaminants in the same food has been rising in recent years."

"In general, the body absorbs nutrients best from foods in which the nutrients are diluted and dispersed among other substances that may facilitate their absorption. Taken in pure, concentrated form, nutrients are likely to interfere with one another's absorption or with the absorption of nutrients in foods eaten at the same time."

"Over-the-counter multivitamin and mineral tablets, of the kind we've all seen lining drugstore shelves in a bewildering variety of colorful and confusing packages, contain substances in pure, artificially concentrated form, as extracted via large-scale industrial processes. But the human body doesn't seem to work in a large-scale industrial way."

"You and I, in short, have no choice. The choice has been made for us. Whether we like it or not, we are obliged to accept whatever the meat packer and supermarket chain have decided is the way our meat ought to be flavored."

Andre Picard quote from Globe and Mail TO regarding the decrease in nutritional value in potatoes was interesting. "The average spud has lost 100% of its vitamin A... 57% of its vitamin C and iron... and 28% of its calcium."