Not on the Label

Just glazed oever another book about corporate evilness after the TV Nation (michael moore), the Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) that caught my eyes. This book is about the dark side of the supermarket chains in UK. I think you can find quite a few books with similar interest, such as "Not on the Label" or "Shopped".

Supermarkets dictate how we shop, what we eat and where to park our cars (or bycicle) and almost monopolise 80% of UK grocery shopping. Behind all friendly smiles and lowest price gurantees, they kill local grocers/fishmongers/butchers alike, they bid low on the suppliers because of their huge buying power, they have no other purposes but to make money and make their shareholders happy.

I don't like supermarket fishes, I hate their meat (they all smell, reeking of the scent of rottenness and death). Veggies are OK in the supermarkets because you are not allowed to feel your veggies in local farmer's market in this country (this doesn't have any erotic implication, please). But supermarkets shopping trip is my only option.

However, I bought Tyson food stock shares after reading the Fastfood nation around 3 years ago and stop having McDonald meals (still cannot resis french fries sometimes). I actually bought some Tesco and thinking about buying some Morrison shares after reading "Shopped". This is so complicated, I want my portfolio to make money but I don't want to shop with them more and more.