[GET Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud

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Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and
scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee
Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and
even poisoned our food throughout history. In the hands of people and
corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food
and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways--padded,
diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise
faked.

Swindled gives a panoramic view of this history, from the leaded
wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds--such as fake organics
and the scandal of Chinese babies being fed bogus milk powder. Wilson
pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and
England and their roles in developing both industrial-scale food
adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. As
Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food
fraudsters--increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to
detect them. The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a
scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of
what was sold as "genuine coffee" was anything but--and that you
couldn't buy pure mustard in all of London. Arguing that
industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all
hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been
helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both
governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson
suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves
about the joys of food and cooking.

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