[WATCH]: Homesteading (28): Fast food companies and agroconglomerates

This video is in part a response to stephenhayes' recent experience selling his traditional variety English apples at a British farmer's market which is closing down next year. I have been strongly influenced in my thinking about the food we eat by Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation', a book which shockingly exposes: the power and influence of America's fast food companies and agro-conglomerates on the nation's eating habits, the appalling conditions of employees in the food industry, and how current industrial-style food production (eg feed lots for cattle) is wreaking havoc on America's natural environment. I am also a huge fan of Morgan Spurlock's 'Supersize Me', a documentary that illustrates the impact fast food can have on our

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