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Ch.1. Introduction | Ch. 10. Food Sovereignty | hunger | United States
Posted on 3 December, 2007 - 04:16
UK Food and Poverty Report - an analysis
The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) have come out with some useful research on the nation’s health, and food poverty. The message from the media seems to be this: ‘the poor don’t have it as bad as we thought’.
To some extent this is a welcome message – it goes some way to countering the national sport, as British as cricket, of heaping contempt on poor people (though I suspect that it’ll take a little more than this report to make the practice disappear completely).
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Ch. 8. Supermarkets | Ch. 9. Geography, Taste, Aesthetics, Obesity, Body Image | Ch. 10. Food Sovereignty | food sovereignty | hunger | obesity | supermarkets | United Kingdom
Posted on 17 July, 2007 - 18:39
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