This Washington Post story on food fraud, on one hand doesn’t surprise me, cynic that I am. On the other hand it makes me so sad that we live in a climate where people – remember there’s people behind this stuff – have no compunction about doing it.
Whatever happened to honesty in anything?
Somehow food fraud feels so much worse, since we have to eat to survive. Are there farmers among us claiming organic heirloom tomatoes when it’s just the usual hybrid drowned-in-pesticide suspects?
An honest mistake is one thing. Fraud and crime is another. We have enough troubles in our world, and truly food is right up there with food borne illnesses, badly handled processing of all sorts, uncontrollable imports and scares and worries we haven’t even considered yet. Can someone please give us a break?