Parmesan is Filled with Wood Chips (and other food horror stories)

Lamb has the largest footprint of any food. Bagged salad can be toxic. Tomatoes are ruining the water supply. Halibut is super scarce.

That’s just the beginning.

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Grub Street writer Adam Platt put together a guide highlighting all that’s ambiguous about our food supply and outlines helpful tips about how to make smarter, more informed, and socially conscious choices about the food we eat.

Here’s an excerpt:

We’re in the midst of more food-related revolutions and enthusiasms (pickling, Greenmarket vegetables, natural wines) than ever before. But with this obsessive knowledge comes a heavy dose of obsessive worry, and thanks to many of these same revolutions—actually, because of them—we seem to be in the midst of more food-related neuroses, worries, scares, and assorted phobias than are possible to count.

There are times when this doesn’t feel like a golden age of food at all, especially when you find yourself wandering the aisles of your local quasi-organic, possibly locally sourced, semi-seasonal supermarket, rummaging through the bountiful avocado bin for this evening’s healthful salad, trying to remember whether it’s a good thing that none of the avocados seem to be very ripe, or how much water they consume while growing, and what exactly “blood avocado” really means.

Read the full article, The Omnivore’s Guilt Trip.

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