A book titled 'The end of food: the coming crisis in the world food
industry', by Paul Roberts, a reporter on 'The Seattle Times' in the US,
has been published. It was reviewed in 'the Sunday Times' Culture
supplement on 13th July. Roberts looks at junk food, global food-producing
companies and also industrialised agriculture. He concludes that mass
epidemics like avian 'flu are inevitable, and will seriously affect humans,
although caused by the conditions of the intensive livestock industry - ie
the unnatural diets, drugs, dirt and over-exploitation forced on livestock
animals.