Supermarkets Secrets
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? Journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think.
Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food.
This film asks how supermarkets manage to push prices down and profits up. Are farmers and growers being pressured to produce food in a manner that leads to it being less nutritious than in the past? And what of the conditions that livestock is reared in today?
How the Food Industry is Deceiving You
This video by Peter Jennings explores how the food industry spends billions of dollars to sabotage your health.
He also takes a critical look at our government s agricultural subsidy programs, and their unintended consequences on your nutritional choices and health. For example, sugar and fat receive 20 times more government farming subsidies than fruits and vegetables. Does this oversupply of fats and sugars, compared to fruits and vegetables, affect your food choices?
Some statistics, implicating both the food industry and the government as co-creating factors in the obesity epidemic, include:
In 2002, consumers spent $174 billion on processed foods.
90 percent of foods marketed each year are processed foods.
Last year, 2,800 new candies, desserts, ice-cream, and snacks were introduced to the marketplace, compared to 230 new fruits or vegetable products.
The food industry spends $34 billion per year marketing their products.
$12 billion is spent marketing to children.
The food industry is quick to point out that the choice is always yours - they re not making you buy something you don t want. They also want to blame the obesity problem on people s unwillingness to exercise.
