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Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth about a Food Chain Gone Haywire
By Nichols Fox
Review by Sally Fallon
Fox is an expert in scare tactics--fresh meat, produce and milk products
in the food supply harbor nests of pathogenic organisms that will poison
us all and there's no hope in sight. This comes as news to those of
us who consume fresh meat, milk and produce every day and are doing
just fine; or the disciples of Aajonus Vonderplanitz who eat nothing
but raw foods, including raw pork, raw beef, raw eggs, raw cream and
raw butter and never felt better in their lives.
The truth is that microbes like e coli are ubiquitous and relatively
benign. As long as we exercise reasonable precaution in food handling,
and consume a diet of whole foods, including protective fats like butter
and coconut oil, we don't need to fear food-borne illnesses.
True insurance would be a wholesale return to organic foods, including
animal foods raised without antibiotics--but Fox is pessimistic that
this will happen. Instead we'll have to zap our food with radiation,
or go vegetarian, she says. (Never mind that the average non-organic
plant crop in America has ten applications of chemicals from start to
finish, including sprays used in storage; or that most of the outbreaks
of food-borne illness have been caused by vegetarian foods.)
We have more confidence than Nicols Fox does in the American consumer--who
is increasingly demanding organic foods--and in the healthy body's natural
immune system that protects him from disease.
About the Reviewer
 Sally
Fallon is the author of
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct
Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched,
thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal
fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary
for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection
from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to
write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the
subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation
and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk,
Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community
activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter,
cream, eggs and meat.
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