Marta Veenhof’s Reviews > What the Fork Are You Eating?: An Action Plan for Your Pantry and Plate > Status Update

While this book so far is great at identifying many ingredients to avoid, it mostly omits identifying meat and dairy as items to assess before consuming.

“On the bottom of most plastic containers is a recycling code - 7 means that the plastic most likely contains BPA; 3 and 6 are somewhat unsavory as well, containing other endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The safer choices are 1, 2, 4, and 5.”

“For anything food, the system is like a web - it’s hard to find your way to “safe” ground. And even when you think you are headed in the right direction, you find out that your better for you alternative is owned by a company that makes some serious junk, often making you question the better brand you are buying.”

“What the Fork is neither a crash diet or a cleanse; rather, it is a guide to spotlight what you are eating and to give you tools to transition everything edible from the ground up.”

“... was a major ingredient in Agent Orange - a chemical that was used in the Vietnam war and caused the death or maiming of more that four hundred thousand people and birth defects in an estimated half million infants.”

“Widespread use of Roundup, a “super weed” that is resistant to glyphosate has been born.” As a result, farmers have no choice but to turn to increasingly toxic chemicals. And as it turns out, one of these chemicals being used more extensively on crops like corn, 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid,...

“Be wary of animals for food production as more often than not, what they eat is composed of GMO ingredients. And remember, you are not only what you eat, but also what they ate.”

“Roughly one third of all food production worldwide gets lost or wasted in the food production and consumption systems. Almost half of this quantity is the result of retailers and consumers in industrialized regions discarding food that is fit for consumption.”

“Scientists are increasingly concerned about the environmental impacts of growth-promoting hormone residues as they leak from manure into the environment, contaminating soil and surface groundwater.”

“Remnants are also thought to cause lower sperm count in boys. So it seems that these stimulants can disrupt hormone balance, natural development, and reproduction as well as possibly causing cancers.”