Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple
Bloomsbury Sigma, April 2016
We modern humans place an inordinate amount of trust in the people who produce, package, ship, and market our food. And all too often that trust is betrayed. Living ever farther from the sources of nature’s bounty leaves space for deception, fraud, and malfeasance to creep into the supply chain. In Sorting the Beef from the Bull, biogeochemist Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol in the U.K. and biologist and science writer Nicola Temple tell some of the most egregious tales of food fraud that science has helped expose.
From the unimaginative—advertising horse meat as ground beef, or fobbing off inferior wine as a superlative vintage—to the rather inventive, such as manufacturing phony eggs from ...
