Problems in the Food System: A Comment Available to Purchase

The food industry is faced by a crisis – perhaps sooner than had been feared. The evidence of widespread salmonella among poultry, it is argued, is a warning. It is suggested that two ways of avoiding the problem would be for the up‐market sector of the food industry to buy free‐range eggs only, and for it to demand that all the eggs it buys come from birds which have been fed with proteins other than pieces of dead animals.