Whenever they have happened, and however they are dealt with, such challenges can really have a huge impact in the food we have to purchase and eat. it was not until the 19th century that we really began to see a sophisticated understanding of the subject through advances in chemistry and through more coordinated and international attempts at policing. In the Medieval period, however, there were significant attempts to monitor the sales of fraudulent goods, with the foundation of guilds and the enforcements of weights and measures that we will discuss later. In the distant past, the purchasing of food was often treated as a case of “Caveat Emptor” or “Buyer Beware” by governments and administrators. Even here in my hometown of Los Angeles, there are reports of inferior fish being sold as their higher priced equivalents at sushi bars across the city. Seemingly every day, I read about some aspect of food fraud relating to olive oils being sold in markets around the world. Food frauds are still carried out in an attempt to make cold hard cash.
Right up to the present day, when, despite increasing and more complex government enforcement, we see ever more sophisticated attempts to alter the food we eat every day. It has been around from a time when humans first began swapping food for other types of food, goods or services, and someone added chalk dust to flour, or debased a jar of wine with vinegar. It is a practice that impacts everybody, but is often targeted at the poorest people and can have significant impact on public health. It is, as we shall see, an issue that reveals humans at their very worst, looking to fool their fellow humans for the sake of profit, despite the sometimes fatal consequences it would have on those who were on the receiving end of their duplicity. Well, certainly since they began to form into communities. We are going to look at an aspect of food history that really does cover just about all of man’s time on this planet. Today, we are going to be looking at the history of food fraud and food adulteration. A podcast about things you didn’t know you didn’t know about food.Įach week, as regular listeners know, we take an ingredient, a person, a period, or a region that people will certainly recognize and try to explain its importance in history, and to place it in the context of how we eat today. Hi everybody and welcome to a brand-new episode of Eat My Globe. Why did the butcher replace half of the contents of his sausages with bread?īecause he found it hard to make both ends meat.
Why did the butcher replace half of the contents of his sausages with bread?
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