Linda Moon www.sbs.com.au 27 Feb 2015 Comment: Consumers distrustful of ‘big food’ companies turn to local food Mounting hepatitis cases linked to frozen berries supplied by frozen desserts and pie manufacturer Patties Foods is another in a long list of food blights fuelling consumer distrust in “big food” companies. Aided by consumer movements and the information explosion, fed up consumers are turning in greater numbers towards local food. Terry Fleck, executive director of the Centre for Food Integrity in the US, recently remarked: “Trust in our food system is very fragile.” As the production of food has become industrialised, the public increasingly sees it as an “institution” to be questioned, its motives to be doubted, Fleck said. 90 percent of people surveyed by the non-profit […] Read More
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