Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats

I found <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Swindled-Bee-Wilson/9780719567766/?a_aid=theprivategirl" target="new"><i>Swindled</i></a> to be far less exciting than I expected. Wilson pays particular attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and personally, I would have found a more in-depth analysis of how that era impacted our current generation. Wilson reveals how food swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and poisoned our food throughout history. <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Swindled-Bee-Wilson/9780719567766/?a_aid=theprivategirl" target="new"><i>Swindled</i></a> details how people and corporations have placed profits above the health of its consumers by tampering with their food and drink in horrifyingly grotesque ways. Wilson encourages the reader to become more vigilant consumers, arguing industrialization, slack politics, globalization, and professional "food swindlers" have caused not only the quality of our food to suffer but our expectations. Despite not enjoying this book as much as I expected to, I can't deny <i>that cover</i>, it's to die for.