News and Politics | August 22, 2011 | 2 comments

Fast Food: A Love Story

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London has a love-hate relationship with fast food. Public health campaigns and celebrity chefs vilify it and warn it could kill us; yet, as this film shows, we’ve never had it so good. This programme provides an unadulterated celebration of fast food, showing, with an emphasis on our lunches, how food and eating have evolved since the 1950s. Special emphasis is made on the evolution and importance of supermarkets. As Rob Lyons, author of Panic on a Plate, tells us, supermarkets have enabled more people to be fed more inexpensively, conveniently and well.
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  • rumplestiltskin
  • vivien
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      vivien  

    • Since WORLDbytes Fast Food: A Love Story report launched this week we have heard from so called experts calling for the government to use yet more legislation and direct intervention in our private lives because apparently ‘we’ just can’t help gorging on junk food. Of-course ‘we’ isn’t the Nigella Lawson buttery creamy variety, it’s the ‘chavs with their cheeseburgers’ that need to be stopped. As Rob Lyons argues in the film, moral distinctions, class distinction are now made through food as “the right kind of people…eat organic, local, ethical food whereas trash people eat trash food”. This film goes provides an antidote to the flabby fights against our freedoms but tell us what you think.

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