This year I have been growing vegetables in my backyard, and when I can, baking my own bread. While a sense of back-to-the-earth may be a part of my motivations, my vegetable garden is also, in a way, my personal protest against capitalism. I have come to realize that foods are corporate products, not grown to feed...
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Suppose we can and do read the small print, what does it tell us? Carrageenan, glycol monostearate, BHT, diglycerides, propylene glycol alginate! Most of us are none the wiser. Although It was a great triumph when consumer pressure forced the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to require listing of non-foods on food...